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MCTEEAR, BROWN 



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WYLIE FAMIblES 



BY 

DAVID V. BROWN, 

1902. 




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PREFACE. 



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For quite a good many years I have thought that it 
would be a good thing for some one to write a short his- 
tory of our family and particularly of our ancestors. As 
time goes by and the elder members of the family are called 
home, information of our forefathers becomes more difficult 
to obtain. I had hoped that an abler pen than mine 
would take up the task. After having spoken to some who 
are interested in preserving the annals of the family and 
having been by them urged to undertake it myself, I at last 
consented, and the following pages are the result of my 
labor. 

Hoping that my readers may receive some information 
as well as pleasure in perusing this little volume, 

I am Respectfully, 

The Author. 



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ROBERT HcTEEAR. 

Robert McTeear was born Sept. 15, 1741, in Scot- 
land. He came to America and settled in Pennsylvania, 
somewhere not far from Philadelphia. The year of his 
coming to America is not definitely known, but it was pre- 
vious to the Revolutionary war. He served his adopted 
country during that memorable struggle. He entered the 
service as a private, but was soon made a corporal and was 
afterward advanced to a captaincy. He continued to serve 
as captain of a company until the close of the war and 
American freedom had been won. Soon after the war he 
took up a tract of land in Pennsylvania on the bank of the 
Juniati river near the junction of that stream with the Sus- 
quehana. 

On the 26th of September, 1785, he was married to 
Elizabeth Martin. This was his third marriage. His first 
wife was Jane Coulter. Of this marriage there was born 
one child, a daughter named Jane. She married a man by 
the name of Thompson. Also by his second marriage he 
had a daughter, who married, lived and died in Tennessee. 
We have the account of these marriages and family rela- 
tions of Robert McTeear from his daughter Margaret, who 
was an encyclopedia in regard to family relationship and 
folk lore. 

Of the marriage relation of Robert McTeear and Eliza- 
beth Martin there were born five children, two sons and 



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three daughters: Margaret, born Oct. 26, (786. Sarah, 
born Dec. 22. 1787. Elizabeth, born January 28, 1789, and 
died Oct. 22, 1789. Alexander, born Sept. 19, 1790, and 
died July 6, 1797. Robert Martin, born July 12, 1794, and 
died Sept. 29, 1803. Of the five children, the two eldest, 
viz: Margaret and Sarah, were the only ones that lived to 
the age of maturity, and of these two we shall speak more 
particularly farther on. 

In the spring of 1806, Robert McTeear, with his wife 
Elizabeth, and their two daughters. Margaret and Sarah, 
then both married, removed to the then almost unbroken 
and unknown forest of Ohio, the state having only been ad- 
mitted into the union three years previous, and up to this 
time, the settlements had mostly been made along the 
Ohio, lower Muskingum and lower vScioto rivers. A few 
years before, David and William Martin, Charles McClung 
(whose wife was also a Martin) and a few others had come 
from Pennsylvania and settled in what was then called the 
Hock Hocking country, so named from a river of the same 
name which flows into the Ohio and whose head waters 
are situated in this region. 

Almost at the same time that the Martins and McClungs 
came to Ohio, the family of William Wills also came. Wm. 
Wills and his family located, in the year 1802, at the foot 
of Mount Pleasant, near where the flourishing city of Lan- 
ca.ster now stands, and in 1 803 moved to near Rush creek. 
The land which he purchased from the government lying m 
what is now the northwest corner of Rush creek town.ship. 
Robert McTeear purchased, in the year 1806, from the 
heirs of David Martin, deceased, the east half of section 
twenty-five, on the east line of what is now Pleasant town- 
ship, Fairfield county, Ohio. As has been said. Captain 
Robert McTeear was a Revolutionary soldier and served 
under Washington. His daughter Margaret had very clear 
recollections of his accounts of some of the engagements in 



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which he took part, ])articularly the battles of Princeton, 
Cow Pens and Trenton. Robi-rt McTeear was a man of 
fine natural ability and stron;j: will power. "He had a tem- 
per of his own," but his was also a strong christian charac- 
ter. He was a staunch believer in the doctrines of the 
christian religion and a firm member of the Scotch Presby- 
terian church. In his l),usine.-^s as well as in his religion, 
he had all the stability and firmness of the true Scott. 

He was a stone mason by trade, but during the latter 
part of his life, until too old to work, farming was his occu- 
pation. He had also a much better education than the 
common run of people of his day. He learned surveying, 
which he put to practical u.se in the early days in Pennsyl- 
vania. He died on the 8th day of April. i8i i, and his body 
rests beside that of his wife, his two daughters, his .sons- 
in law and a number of his grandchildren and many great 
grandchildren in the burying ground within a quarter of a 
mile of where he spent in peace and quiet the last years of his 
life. His memory was always revered by his two daughters as 
long as they lived, and through life whenever they thought 
they detected anything in their children or grand children 
which seemed bright or intellectual they attributed it to the 
McTeear blood in their veins. 

Elizabeth McTeear, wife of the foregoing Robert Mc- 
Teear, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Martin, 
was born Aug. 13, 1749, but whether in Scotland or Amer- 
ica is not very clear at this time. She may have been born 
in South Carolina or Tennessee. We find that at a very 
early period in the history of America there were settle- 
ments of Psalm Singing Presbyterians in South Carolina. 
They organized churches of which the Associate Reformed 
church in our southern states' is to-day the legitimate fruit. 
The churches thus organized in so early a day were com- 
posed of Huguenots from France, Dutch Reformed people 
from Holland and Scotch Presbyterians, and some of their 



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descendants emigrated from South Carolina to other south- 
ern states, particularly to Tennessee, We know that 
some of the Martin family lived near Knoxville, Ten- 
nesssee, for Jannette Martin (Aunt Jenny, as she was called) 
rode on horse back from Knoxville, Tennesse,to Ohio about 
the year 1808 or 18 10, and lived with her sister, Elizabeth 
McTeear, until the death of the latter, when she went to her 
sister, Margaret McClung, where she spent the remainder of 
her days. She never married. I have often seen, in pos- 
se.ssion of m}' grandmother, a bell which Jannette Martin 
brought from Tennessee and with which she belled her 
horse, when she turned him out to graze, on her trip from 
Tennessee to Ohio. 

Elizabeth Martin McTeear, wife of Robert McTeear, 
was the daughter of William and Margaret Martin. William 
Martin died Jany 16, 1780, and his wife Margaret died Dec. 
-3> 1 79^- Whether William Martin and his family ever 
lived in the south or not we are unable to say, but certamly 
some of their near relatives did. We have no record of 
this couple except the date of their death. But we do know 
that they were the progenitors of a numerous offspring, and 
many of them were men who would rather read a book or 
engage in conversation than to plow corn or chop wood. 
Most of them, however, were people of good minds, strong 
wills, and conscientious, intelligent christians. Aunt Mar- 
garet McClung, who was a Martin, was noted for her intel- 
ligence and deep piety. I suppose few women of her day 
had vi more thorough knowledge of the scriptures than had 
she. 

Whether William and Margaret Martin, one or either 
of them, was born in this country or Scotland or in Penn- 
.sylvania or the south, certain it is they must have lived in 
Pennsylvania, far several of their children were married 
there and emigrated to Ohio, and among them the subject 
of this sketch, who was tlie great grandmother of the writer. 



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The names of some of the children of William and Marga- 
ret Martin were David, William, James, Joseph, John, Eliz- 
abet, Margaret, Jannette, Nancy and Sarah. 

The half section of land which Robert McTeear pur- 
chased from the heirs of David Martin, in the year 1806, 
afterward became the property of his two daughters, Mar- 
garet and Sarah. Margaret received the northeast quarter 
of section twenty-five and Sarah the southeast quarter. 
These two daughters, Margaret and Sarah, previous to their 
father's death had married two brothers, David and William 
Brown. 

After the death of Robert McTeear, his wife Elizabeth 
continued to live with her daughter Margaret until herdeath, 
which occurred Aug. 17, 1829. 

The McTeear familv and the Brown families emigrated 
from Pennsylvania to Ohio together and Robert and Eliza 
beth McTeear made their home with the family of their 
daughter, Margaret Brown, as long as they lived. 

WILLIAM BROWN. 

William Brown, who was born in County Down, Ire. 
land, was the only son of David Brown, who emigrated from 
Scotland to the north of Ireland, perhaps with his parents, 
sometime during the persecutions for religion during the 
reign of James ist and Charles ist. During that time many 
Presbyterians left their native heath in Scotland and settled 
in the north of Ireland; and from thence we have our Scotch- 
Irish blood. 

William Brown was born in the year 1751, and when 
only 19 years old, was married to Sarah McMillan, who was 
six years his senior. In those days, in Ireland, it was custom- 
ary to appoint a day and place, at some convenient time of 

the year, for holding a fair. These fairs were not so much 
for the exhibition of live stock, farm products and handi- 
work as for the purpose of buying, selling, bartering and 
exchanging. 



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It was while on the way to one of these fairs that these 
two young people, William Brown and Sarah McMillan, 
having been previously acquainted, fell in company with 
each other and without any previous engagement or inten- 
tion on their part, agreed to be married, and consequently 
were married that day, before returning home. They spent 
a long and useful life together, and reared a large and highly 
respected family. They emigrated to America, about the 
year 1771 or 1772, and settled on the bank of the Juniati 
river, in Pennsylvania, where he purchased from the gov- 
ernment a tract of land containing 200 acres. At that time 
there was no such thing known as sectionizmg land. The 
system of dividing land into sections, townships and ranges, 
was devised by Mansfield, while he was Surveyor General of 
the United States, during Jefferson's first administration. 

Previous to that time persons obtaining title to land» 
emploved a surveyor to survey out the tract they wanted, 
runnino- the lines wherever or in whatever direction thev 
chose, just so they did not cross any lines previously 
established. In consequence of this irregular method of 
surveying, William Brown's 200 acres of land in Pennsyl- 
vania had sixteen corners and yet it all lay in one body. 
This land, he, with the help of liis sons, improved by clear- 
ing the timber from a good portion of it and erecting there- 
on a double log house and a bank \)aYn, the lower storv of 
which was built of stone. 

He sold this farm in the latter part of the vear 1805, or 
first of the year 1806, and removed to Ohio, in the spring of 
1806, and purchased from Samuel Hamill the east half of sec- 
tion twenty-four (24), in what is now Plea.sant township, 
Fairfield countv, Ohio. All his children then livine came 
with him and his wife to Ohio, e.xcept their two daughters, 
Mattie and li^li/abeth. the former of which was married to 
Gabriel Lookins, and the other to John Yost. 

After a few years John and Elizabeth Yost, emigrated 



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to Ohio and settled in Peny county, about three miles south- 
east of the town of Somerset. 

Gabriel Lookins and his family remained in Pennsyl- 
vania, and as years went by and no communication kept up, 
the other members of the family finally lost trace of them. 

The children of William and Sarah Brown, who lived 
to manhood and womanhood, were named as follows: Rosa, 
Mattie, David, William, Betsy (or Elizabeth), Sally (or Sarah) 
and Robert. 

William Brown, was a man of great physical ability. 
He was a weaver by trade, which occupation he followed 
during the winter seasons until past middle life. 

The farm which he bought in Ohio, and on which he 
continued to reside as long as he lived, was crossed near its 
southern boundary by the old state road, which was one of 
the first thoroughfares in the state. It was known as Zanes' 
trace, and was for long years perhaps the most traveled 
highway east of Wheeling, Va. It was said to have been 
first blazed out by a half breed Indian, by the name of Zanes, 
who was then in the employ of the government, as a scout 
or guide. The trace extended from Wheeling, Virginia, in 
a westerly direction, bearing a little vSouth, through where 
are now located the cities of Zanesville, Lancaster and Chili- 
cotha and on to a point on the Ohio river, above Cincinnati, 
opposite to a place on the Kentucky side, then called Lime- 
stone, but for many years past called Maysville. This old 
state road ran a few feet south of the house, which was on 
the farm that William Brown purchased of Samuel Hamill. 
About the year 1837, or '38, a macadamized road, called the 
Zanesville and Maysville turnpike, was constructed through 
the country and had the same general direction as the old 
Zanes traje. This macadamized road crossed, at an acute 
angle, the old state road, and ran about two rods north of the 
old Brown homestead. There was, also, another road which 
ran from this point in a southeast direction, cutting off the 



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northeavSt corner of the original Robert McTeear land and 
continuing on through what was originally the Wills, after- 
ward the Barr land. 

I am thus particular in describing the exact locality, 
because here is where William Brown and his wife located 
when they first came to Ohio, and here the}' resided the re- 
mainder of their days, and they were the parents and grand 
parents, and great grand parents, and great great grand 
parents of a numerous progeny, and the land once owned 
by them has long since passed out of the Brown name, and 
the last vestige of the old house has been gone for nearly 
fifty years, and there is nothing left to mark the last earthly 
home of this worthy couple, except the location of the roads, 
and the well. William and Sarah Brown, together with 
some of their children and the McTeear, McClimgand Mar- 
tin families, were among the members of the old associate 
Reformed church, at the time of the origanization of what 
has long been known as the Rush Creek congregation, but 
at the organization, was named Beulah. It was for a long 
time locally known as "the Tent," from the fact that the}- 
had no house of worship. Whenever the weather would per- 
mit they held service in what the poet Bryant calls "God's 
first temple," viz: the grove, the minister occupying an ele. 
vated platform under a beech tree, which platform was call- 
ed a tent. The congregation occupying seats made of hew- 
ed puncheons or slabs laid across logs. When the weather 
did not permit of out door services the preaching was in the 
house or barn of William Brown, or of his son, David. 

The first church built by the Beulah congregation was 
of logs, and was on the northeast corner of the land belono- 
ing to Robert McTeear. 

About this time. William Brown donated an acre or an 
acre and a half of ground out of the southeast corner of his 
land for a church yard and burying place. The Wills family 
having opened a burying ground, just along on the east 



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side of the township line and this ground given by William 
Brown, adjoined it on the west side. When the grave yard 
came to be fenced, the Wills plat was enclosed with it. 

The record we have of William Brown is that he was 
an earnest, energetic, thoroughgoing man and a great lover 
of ofood horses. He was no less earnest and energetic in 
his religious life, than in worldly affairs. He had a warm 
place in his heart for the church in which he had been train 
ed, and of which he was an active member from the time of 
his young manhood, until the day of his death. He was a 
firm believer, so far as he understood them, in the doctrines 
set forth in the catechisms and confession of faith as formu- 
lated by the Westminster Assembly of Divines. 

He was a thoroughly honest man, and scorned to do a 
mean act. His wife vSarah was, perhaps, the stronger char- 
acter of the two. She was a woman of indomitable spirit 
and determination, and withall, we trust a true christian. 

William Brown died March 2d, 1828, aged 77 years, 
and his wife Sarah, died May ist, 1833, aged 88 years. 
Their dust reposes in the ground donated by them for a 
burying place for the community in which they spent their 
last years. 

The second church built Ijy the Associate Reformed 
congregation of Beiilah, (or Rush creek), was on the north 
part of the lot given by William Brown. 

In the year 1851 David Brown and his wife Margaret, 
deeded to the Associate Reformed congregation of Beulah 
an acre of ground adjoining on the south the land previously 
given by William Brown to the use of the church. On this 
land, deeded by David and Margaret Brown, was erected the 
same year what was then considered a very commodious 
house of worship. 

The building w^as a very substantial frame of oak 

timber and was 36 by 50 ft. The contractors were Jacob 
Enrich and Joseph Smootz. The building committee was 



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composed of William McClung, John Greir, John M. John- 
son and William Brown. This was the third house of worship 
erected by this congregation. This was fifty years ago and 
so far as the writer is mformed.the house is still doing serv- 
ice as a sanctuary for those who are still members of one of 
the oldest congregations of the organization of which it is a 
part. 

It also occupies historic ground. It was one of the 
first Associate Reformed congregations organized in the 
state of Ohio. Here too, it was that on the 27th day of 
April, 1820, the Synod of Sciota constituted itself into an 
independent Synod under the title of the Associate Reform 
ed Synod of the west. For thirty years prior to this time 
there had been difficulties between the different sections of 
the church. There had been numerous propo.sitions sub- 
mitted for union with different churches holding Presbyte- 
rian doctrine, such as the Associate, Associate Reformed, 
Dutch Reformed and Presbyterian. There had also been 
trouble over the action of Rev. John M. Mason, D. D., in 
admitting to the communion table persons who were mem- 
bers of other churches. In all these matters the church in 
the east had been more liberal in their views than had the 
church in the west. Another thing which hastened the 
action of the Synod of Sciota was that the church being 
stronger in the east than in the west, insisted that the 
meetings of the general Synod should be held in the east- 
ern part of the country, mostly in New York or Penn.sylva 
nia, and refu.scd the request of the western ministers that 
the general Synod should meet, occasionally at least, in a 
more western or central place. Some of the best men in 
the Associate Reformed church in after years expressed 
them.selves as believing that the action of the western Syn- 
od at that time had much to do with preserving the identity 
of this branch of the church, which identity was strictly 
preserved until the union of i<S58, when the United Presby- 



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terian church was formed by the union of the Associate and 
Associate Reformed churches. For the facts as above set 
forth concerning the action of the Synod of Sciota the read- 
er is referred to the history of the Associate Reformed 
church as found in the Manual of the United Presbyterian 
church, by J. B. Scouller, D. D. , 

I have digressed somewhat from the original intention 
of this family history,in thus going into detail in this church 
matter, but I have done so because our ancestors were in- 
timately connected with the early history of the old historic 
church of Rush Creek, Fairfield county, Ohio. 

DAVID BROWN. 

David Brown, the eldest son of William and Sarah Brown 
was born May 30, I678, ' near the banks „of the Juniati 
river in Mifflin county, Pennsylvania. Here he grew to 
manhood, inured to the hardships and privations of pioneer 
life. Facilities for an education were at that time very 
meager. For a few months in the winter, during the years 
of his boyhood, he had the advantage of such schools as the 
rural districts of that day afforded. There was no public 
school fund, but the schools were supported by private sub- 
scription. The teachers were frequently men of very limit- 
ed education and sometimes low morals. 

During the time that David was growing to manhood 
he and his younger brother William were employed in help- 
ing their father in improving his farm and cultivating the 
same. 

Being raised near the Juniati and vSusquehanna rivers, 
he became an expert waterman', and during the days of his 
young manhood his time in the intervals of farming was 
occupied in rafting lumber and assisting in taking boat 
loads of wheat down the river to tide water. In those days 
there were no railroads or other public means of conveyance 
for either persons or property, consequently the produce 



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from the interior of the country was carried to the seaport 
towns in large wagons, each of which was drawn by five or 
six horses, and the goods with which the stores in smaller 
towns were supplied were transported in the same way, Da- 
vid Brown's father was the owner of one of those "road 
teams," as they were called, and young David made frequent 
and numerous trips between Mifflin and Philadelphia. The 
time required for a trip was about three weeks. The sameis 
made now, even by a slow freight train in less than 24 hours. 
On the 28th day of March, 1803, David Brown was 
married to Margaret McTeear, oldest daughter of Robert 
and Elizabeth McTeear, whose biography we have already 
given, and as also stated in that biography, Robert and Eliza- 
beth McTeear, in company with their two daughters, Mar- 
garet and Sarah, left Pennsylvania m the spring of 1806, and 
emigrated to Fairfield county, Ohio. Here on the farm 
purchased by Robert McTeear and inherited by their 
daughter Margaret, David and Margaret Brown continued 
to reside for 51 years. In the spring or summer of 1865, 
they removed one mile north, to their son William's. He 
owned a farm of 140 acres, 100 acres of which was the north 
part of the half section purchased from Samuel Hamill by 
William Brown in 1806, and by William Brown deeded to 
his son David and by him to his son William. The reader 
will be careful not to mix these two names. The names 
William and David alternated for at least six generations in 
the Brown family. 

At the time of his last earthly remove David Brown 
built a comfortable house within a few rods of his son Wil- 
liam's, where he and his aged companion continued to 
reside in peace and contentment until the 27th day of No- 
vember, 1868, when he died, aged 90 years, 6 months and 
27 days. 

His widow survived him nearly four years. She died 
September 21, 1872, at the age of 85 years, 10 months and 
25 days. 




Grandfather and Grandmother Brown. 



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This was a worthy couple. They were highly respected 
and deservedly so. They were industrious and frugal. They 
were extravagant in nothing except hospitality. Their 
house was a home to all who chose to enter. No one who 
sought shelter for the night or food for himself or animals 
was refused, no matter whether acquaintance or stranger. 
Having settled in Ohio close to the church and near the 
great thoroughfare, the old state road or Zane's trace, their 
home became the stopping place for all the ministers of the 
gospel passing that way, as well as hundreds, if not thous 
ands of others. 

During the first 40 or 45 years they lived here the com- 
mon mode of travel was by private conveyance. Preachers 
traveled on horseback to and fro between western Ohio or 
Pennsylvania and southwestern Ohio, Indiana and Ken- 
tucky, and they all knew where David Brown and his good 
wife lived and seemed to think they would be doing them an 
injustice if they did not stay over night with them. 
They were always made welcome. There was always plenty 
of room and feed in the barn for the horses and as long as 
there was a place in the house for another human being 
they never considered that they were crowded. 

About the year of 1845 or 1846 the first Synod of the west 
of the Associate Reformed church met in Chillicothe, Ohio, 
which was a day's drive southwest from the Brown home. 
Of the ministers and elders who attended this meeting of 
Synod about twenty of them were entertained by this Brown 
family, on the way to Synod, and twenty-five of them and 
their horses on their return. 

David Brown was a man of great determination and he 
seemed to have been boin almost without the sense of fear. 
He might have been said to be a man of iron will. When 
he undertook to accomplish anything he accomplished it if 
it was within the range of human possibility. I will relate 
one incident showing this trait of his character. 



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A man by the name of Thompson, who had at onetime 
made his home in the family of David Brown, had left there 
and had gone to the vicinity of Mansfield, Ohio. Thomp- 
son had been crooked in some business matters and Mr. 
Brown had determined to bring him to justice. While in 
Lancaster, one day in the month of October or November, 
he learned late in the afternoon that Thompson was about 
to leave the locality in which he was then living, and go to 
parts unknown. He mounted his horse and rode home, a 
distance of seven miles. He fed his horse, ate his supper, 
gave a few hasty directions to the family, and between sun 
set and dark, remounted his horse and started for Mansfield, 
75 miles away. About midnight he stopped at a wayside 
tavern, such as were to be found at frequent intervals along 
the public highways of that day. Called the landlord to the 
door and told him to put his horse in the stable and feed 
him a gallon of oats, and said he, "I am going to lie down 
here on the floor, and in just one hour you have my horse 
here at the door, and call me." The landlord obeyed orders 
to the letter, and he again mounted his horse and just as 
the sun was appearing above the eastern horizon he rode 
into Mansfield and captured his man before he had his 
breakfast. He had ridden fourtean miles during the after 
noon and then seventy-five miles between sun set and sun 
rise. This is only one of numerous instances that might 
be related, showing this particular trait of character. 

He was a man of remarkrbly generous impulses. This 
characteristic frequently brought him into difficulty. He 
was always ready to assist any one whom he thought need- 
ed help. He would take up the quarrel even of those who 
had no particular claim on him, if he was convinced they 
were wronged or imposed upon. He frequently went secur- 
ity for others and often had their debts to pay. Whenever 
he championed the cause of a friend, he fought just as bit- 
terly and as tenaceously as though the cause A^ere his own. 



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Consequently he was a man who had many warm and strong 
friends, and at times some very bitter enemies. 

His was a remarkably mirthful, jovial disposition. He 
was fond of a joke and loved mirth and innocent fun, even 
to old age. He was extremly fond of children and young 
people, and greatly enjoyed their company. He took great 
delight in the amusements of the young people and his 
home was always open to them, day or night. 

He served his country part of the time during the war 
of 1812. He, along with others, was ordered out under 
Major Scroggins, to go to the relief of Fort Meigs, in north- 
ern Ohio. They were attached to a battallion of cavalry 
and furnished their own horses and necessary equipage. 

Soon after the return from this expedition he was again 
called on by the government to take his four horse team and 
go with a part of the army to northwestern Ohio. How 
long he served, either in the capacity of a soldier or a team- 
ter, is not known by the writer. 

As has already been said, he was a man of very decid 
ed views and strong feelings. He was a great friend and 
warm admirer of Andrew Jackson. He was an active, fear- 
less and uncompromising democrat to the day of his death. 

He was an honored member and a strong financial sup- 
porter of the Associate Reformed, afterward the United 
Presbyterian church. In those days, when people came a 
distance of twenty, thirty or more miles to attend commun- 
ion occasions and he living in close proximity to the church, 
his house, his larder, his granery and his crib were always 
open to those who attended those occasions, and neither 
man nor beast was unprovided for or went away unfed. 

Some time about the year 1808, the congregations of 
Crooked Creek, Jonathans Creek and Rush Creek made out 
and presented a call for the service of Rev, Abraham Craig, 
who was at that time pastor of the Associate Reformed 
congregation at Cynthiana, Harrison county, Kentucky. 



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The call was accepted. Rev. Craig and his family had then 
to be moved from Kentucky to his new field of labor. David 
Brown, at his own expense, took his five horse team and 
went to Kentucky, and loaded Rev. Craig's household goods 
and his family, consisting of Mrs. Craig and three or four 
children, into his wagon and brought them to his own home, 
where they remained for some months, until Mr. Craig pro- 
vided a home for them. This Mr. Craig was a very self-willed 
man, not only self-willed, but positively contrary. On this 
trip, when they were moving from Kentucky to Ohio, they 
had to camp out. Mr. Craig would not rise in the morning 
until breakfast was ready and the others would have to 
wait his pleasure, and after breakfast he would stroll off, 
but he required that the others should not start on the 
day's journey until after he had conducted family worship, 
and he insisted on setting his own time for attending to this 
duty. It did not take many days for Mr. Brown to become 
tired of this arrangement. So he addressed himself to Mr. 
Craig in this way, "Mr. Craig, if you want to have worship 
in the morning you will have to rise when the others do, 
and attend to it either before breakfast or immediately af- 
ter. I am on expense here with my team and it stands me 
in hand to get home as soon as possible." But the next 
morning things were not improved any. And so, while 
Mr. Craig was strolling through the woods, Mr. Brown 
hitched up his team, had the family get in the wagon and 
he drove on and left Mr. Craig to follow after. This put 
an end to morning devotion for the balance of the trip. 

David Brown was possessed of i strong mind, naturally, 
and, while his education was limited, he was a man of good 
general information which he had acquired by reading and 
keen, close observation. He was a good conversationalist, 
and very few could beat him in running a joke or outwit 
liim in a political argument, and woe betide the man who 



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incurred his wrath. He was a master hand at invective. 
When his ire was aroused he could use language, every 
word of which cut to the red. 

He was always considered a man of strict honesty in 
all his dealings. He was, at various times, honored with 
positions of profit and trust. For six years he held, by ap 
pointment of the legislature, the office of fund commissioner 
of the Hocking Valley canal. Nine times in succession he 
was elected one of the trustees of his township. He served 
three terms, of three years each, as county commissioner and 
refused election for the fourth term. The office of 
county commissioner in Ohio was a very important one, 
and- 1 suppose, is so yet. The board of county commission- 
ers had the oversight of the county's business. They at- 
tended to the building of bridges, opening new roads, and 
attending to the business of the county generally. He at 
one time had perhaps as extensive an acquaintance as any 
man in the county in which he lived. 

His wife, Margaret, was a most remarkable woman. 
Remarkable for her fine natural intellect and for her won- 
derful memory. She was a regular encyclopedia of folk 
lore and family history. She was remarkable for her energy 
and perseverence. It was said of her by those who knew 
her best, that she undertook and accomplished more than 
any other woman in the community in which she lived. 
She was a very pious woman and very tender hearted, 
always ready to assist any one in need. Besides rearing a 
large family of her own (she was the mother of thirteen 
children, ten of whom lived to years of maturity) she raised 
quite a number of other children, who had been left orphans, 
and her house was always the home of some others than her 
own family. /j For many years, during the active period of 
her life, there was not a severe case of sickness, and acci- 
dent, a birth or a death anywhere in the community but 
she was called on for assistance, and when so called on, 



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whether by day or by night, the weather was never so cold 
or inclement, the night so dark or the roads so bad that she 
did not cheefully respond. She was never idle. She always 
worked with vim and vigor. To her husband she was a 
helpmeet in the truest sense of the term. 

She was thoroughly familiar with the burying ground 
that was close to their residence. Persons who had rela- 
tives interred in the old grave yard would frequently come 
to her to locate the graves. Many of the graves were not 
marked in any way to indicate who was buried in them, and 
yet, after a lapse of forty years, she could point out, with 
unerring certainty, the location of each and every grave. 

She could also give the history and family connections 
of all the old settlers. She lived a long and useful life. No 
woman of whom the writer ever had any knowledge, lived 
a more useful life than did she. She was loved and re- 
spected by all who knew her. There never was the shadow 
of a stain on her character. 

She died on the 21st day of Sept. 1872, at the age of 
eighty-five years, ten months and twenty-five days. 

Sixty-five years before her death, she saw the burying 
ground opened where her body now lies, beside that of her 
husband, her father and mother, children, sister and nume- 
rous other relatives, and here that body will continue to rest 
until the resurrection morn, when soul and body shall be 
re-united, when she shall, with the blood bought throng 
enter into the kingdom prepared for those who have washed 
their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. 

David and Margaret Brown were the parents of thirteen 
children, one son and twelve daughters. They came in the 
following order: Elizabeth, Martha, Sarah, Jane, William, 
Nancy, Margaret, who died in infancy, Margaret, the 2nd, 
Phebe, who died in infancy, Anna W. the second Phet)e, 
who met an accidental death at the age of five years, M. 
Euphemia and Mary M. 



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ELIZABETH MCCLUNG. 

Elizabeth married David McClung, I think in the year 
1824, but am not certain as to the date. A few years after 
marriage they moved to Seneca county, Ohio, where they 
remained until their family was mostly grown. From Seneca 
they removed to Hancock county, where they resided for 
some years and sold out there and bought a farm near 
Leipsic, m Putnam county, Ohio, where they ended their 
days. 

David McClung was a successful farmer and stock 
raiser. He was a man of good natural ability, which he 
improved by extensive reading. While comparatively a 
young man he was elected and ordained a ruling Elder in 
the Associate Reformed church and after the union, which 
resulted in the formation of the United Presbyterian church, 
he continued to fill the office of Elder as long as he lived. 

His wife Elizabeth, survived him some years, but the 
age of either of them, or the date of their death, is to this 
scribe unknown. The names of their children who lived to 
years of maturity, were: Phebe. William Clark, Robert M. 
James D. David W, Margaret, Martha and John. 

Phebe married Abner Lenard and lived for a number 
of years in Hancock county, Ohio. They afterward moved 
to Loveland, Colorado, where Mr. Lenard met his death by 
being gored by an infuriated bull. Mrs. Lenard remained a 
wido-v for some years and then remarried. She died in 
Loveland, Colorado, in 1899. Her .second husband's name 
was Simpson. 

William C. (usually called Clark), was killed by light- 
ning in Jonson county, Mo., in the summer of 1881. He 
was twice married, but never had any children. 

Robert married and lived for a time in Iowa, and 

from there he moved to Nebraska. 

In the fall of 1854, James D. married Melissa McBride, 
who died within a year afterward. For his second wife, he 



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married Agnes Sharp, and went to live in White county, 
Illinois. In the spring of 1866, they removed to Johnson 
county, Mo., where he died in 1872. 

David W. graduated from Miami college, at Oxford, 
Ohio, after which he edited a republican paper in Hamilton, 
Ohio. He read law in the office of L, D. Campbell, who 
was one of the leading lawyers and politicians of southwest- 
ern Ohio. About the time he was admitted to the bar the 
Probate Judge of Butler county died and David W. Mc- 
Clung was appointed to filled out the unexpired term. Soon 
after this the civil war broke out and he enlisted as a private. 
Shortly after his enlistment he was commissioned quarter- 
master at Camp Dennison, near Cincinnati. He held the 
position until the close of the war. Part of the time he 
was stationed at Camp Dennison and part of the time at 
Camp Chase, near Columbus, Ohio. On the i8th of March 
1862, he was married to Miss Harrison, a grand daughter 
of Gen. William Henry Harrison, and a first cousin of ex- 
president Benjamin Harrison. Since the war he has resid- 
ed in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

John has been for a number of years a practicing phy- 
sician in Leipsic, Ohio. He is a ruhng elder in the United 
Presbyterian church. 

The two younger daughters of David and Elizabeth Mc- 
Clung both died after reaching womanhood, but neither of 
them ever married. 

MARTHA BARR. 

Martha, the second child of David and Margaret Brown 
was born in Pennsylvania, on the 15th day of December, 
1805, and died January 26th, 1875. She married Gabriel 
Barr, who was born April 20th, 1802. His father died be- 
fore he was born. His mother's maiden name was Wills, a 
daughter of William Wills, of whom mention has been 
made Gabriel Barr died October 17th, 1850, aged 48 years 
5 months and 27 days. 



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Martha Barr (Aunt Mattie, as she was called, not only 
by her nieces and nephews, but also by most all the young 
people in the community) like her mother, was a woman of 
great energy and industry. She was noted as an excellent 
cook, and an extraordinary cleanly, tidy housekeeper. She 
lived and died on the farm on which she and her husband 
first went to live after their marriage, and within a half-mile 
of where she was raised. She was the mother of eight chil- 
dren: Mary, Samuel W., Margaret, David B., Nancy, Eliza- 
beth, Rebecca and Robert M., all of whom lived to be mar- 
ried and have families, except Samuel W., who, although 
married, had no children. 

Mary was born Feb'y 26, 1827, married John Neely, Jan'y 
10, 1850, and lived east of Rushville, Ohio, and raised a 
family of four children: Sarah E., Anna M., Martha J. and 
Silas B. 

Samuel W. married Rebecca J. Brown, daugh- 
ter of Judge William M. Brown, of Perry county, 
Ohio. About eighteen months after his marriage he 
he removed to Logan county, Ohio, where his wife died in 
about six or eight months after they moved there. My rec- 
ollection is that they were mairied in the summer of 1853, 
removed to Logan county in the spring of 1855, and she 
died in September of the same year, and he returned to 
Fairfield county. In the spring of 1856 Samuel W. Barr 
and James D. McClung went to Iowa with the intention of 
making that their future home. In less than two months 
McClung returned to Fairfield Co., Ohio, but Barr remained in 
the west. From Iowa he went to southwestern Illinois and 
for the next few years he was employed at various places 
and different occupations, and all the while working farther 
down the Mississippi river until the outbreak of the civil 
war found him in the vicinity of New Orleans. He being 
loyal to the government, avoided conscripton into the Con. 
federate army until a regiment of Union soldiers from Mas- 



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sachusetts arrived in that part of the country. He enhsted 
in this regiment and died from disease in the hospital. 

Samuel Wills Barr was a noble man, generous hearted, 
genial in disposition and manly in every respect. He was 
as fine a speciman of physical manhood as would be seen in 
a thousand men. He was over six feet tall, broad shoulder- 
ed and finely proportioned. He had black hair, dark eyes 
and a manly countenance. Conscious of his own rectitude 
and honesty of purpose, he could look the whole world in 
the face. His body lies buried in an unknown grave in south- 
ern soil. His strong arm has long since withered to dust 
and his large red cheeks been food for worms, but his mem- 
ory still lingers with those he loved and who loved him. 

Margaret, the next child of Gabriel and Martha Barr, 
was a bright girl and good scholar. She taught school in 
her younger days. She was left-handed and could handle 
the needle with great skill and dexterity. While quite a 
young woman she went to Indiana, and there met and mar- 
ried William Majors. So far as is known to the writer 
they are living in Kirklin, Clinton county, Ind. They have 
had several children born to them, but I am not acquainted 
with their history. 

The next in the family is David B. He was named for 
his grandfather, David Brown. He was born Oct. 1833. 
He was always a quiet, steady, industrious, well-meaning 
boy. He was considerably given to the use of quaint and 
droll expressions. After the death of his father, which oc- 
curred when he was about 17 years old, he worked for a 
few months at cabinet work, and then returned to the farm, 
which occupation he has followed ever since. He married 
Louisa J. Kennedy. They have two daughters, Mary E. 
and Martha L. 

Mar>' Elizabeth Barr was born Oct. 5, 1864. In 1901 
she was married to Mr. Eyman. 



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Martha I»retta Barr was bom Oct. 7 '?. She mar- 

ried Edward W. Eyeman Sept. 9th, 1 891. Tiiey have three 
children. 

David B. Barr Ls christian gentleman and an elder in 
the U. P. church. He owns and lives on a farm within a 
mile and a half of where he was bom and raised- 
Nancy Barr married William Stewart. Soon after their 
marriage they emigrated to Clinton county, Indiana, where 
they lived for several years. From there they removed to 
Iroquois county, IlL, where they now reside. 

Elizabeth, the next in the family, was a very pretty 
curly haired girL She married James Brisbin. Several 
children were bom to them, some of whom died in infancv. 
They have only two children living, both daughters and 
both married. The older of the two married Frank Yost, 
and lives near Thomville, Ohio. The second married a Mr. 
Miller. They with their three bright children live in the 
house with her parents. James Brisbin died in 190 1. He 
was an upright, honorable, industrious man and a reliable 
member of the United Presbyterian church. Her mother 
being a widow, and the older children having married and 
left home, Elizabeth has always resided on the old home- 
stead. 

Rebecca Ann married John Kennedy a brother of Da- 
vid B. Barr's wife. She has been dead for a good many 
years. She left two boys, James and SamueL 

The youngest of the familv, Robert M.. was a man of 
fair education. During the vears of his voung manhood he 
taught school in the winter and farmed in the summer. He 
married a Miss Baker ot Perry county. A few years after 
his marriagre he read law and was admitted to the bar. He 
then went to Somerset to live, where he practiced law until 
his death, which occurred in 1898. 

SARAH BARR. 

Sarah, the third child of David and Margaret Brown, 



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was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, on the i6th day of July, 
1808, and died Aug. 5, 1853, aged 45 years, 7 months and 
19 days. She was married to William Barr, the older 
brother of Gabriel Barr, who married Martha Brown as 
heretofore mentioned. 

Sarah, or Aunt Sally, as we always called her, was a 
very genial, jolly, clever woman. By those who knew her 
in her young days, she was said to be very handsome. She 
was an invalid, afflicted with dropsy for ten or twelve years 
before her death, but finally died of flux. During the period 
of her bodily affliction she never lost her genial disposition. 
On account of her ailment she was, for a number of years, 
prevented from going much from home. But she never 
complained of her lot. She was fond of company, and par- 
ticularly enjo3'ed the society of ycung people. Consequent- 
ly the young folks of the neighborhood, and especially her 
nieces and nephews and her younger sisters, had many a 
jolly evening at her house. She was a very kind and affec- 
tionate mother and had the love and esteem of her children 
in the highest degree. 

Her husband, William Barr, was a very friendly, free 
hearted, social kind of man. He was a wheel-wright by 
trade. He was a rare mechanical genius. He could make 
anything in either wood or iron that he turned his hand to, 
and whatever he made was completely made. No botched 
or unfinished job ever left his hand. 

As has been said, the mother of William and Gabriel 
Barr was a Wills. Their father died before Gabriel was 
born. Their mother also died while the boys were small. 
They were reared by their mother's people,the last of whom 
to survive were Aunt Betsy and Uncle Sam, neither of whom 
ever married. When William Barr and his wife Sarah were 
married they went to living in the house with this old maid- 
en aunt and bachelor uncle, and they continued one family 
as long as the two old people lived. 



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Uncle Samuel died March 24, 1846, aged 70 years. 
Aunt Betsy preceded him about six years. 

The Wills family were among the very early settlers of 
that section of country, but the sons of William Wills not 
marrying, the name became extinct in that part of the coun- 
try when Samuel Wills died. 

WILLIAM BARR. 

William Barr was born in Pennsylvania on the 5 th day 
of March, 1800, and died April 23, 1849. When only two 
years old he was brought by the Wills family to Ohio, (his 
father having died in Pennsylvania) and one year later they 
settled on the farm on which he continued to reside as long 
as he lived. 

William and Sarah Barr were the parents of five chil- 
dren, three sons and two daughters, all of whom lived to be 
married and had families of their own. 

The oldest child, Mary Elizabeth, was married to J. Padan 
Bogle, August, 1852. For more than a year after their 
marriage, and until after the death of Mary E's mother, they 
resided in the family. They then removed to Perry county, 
Ohio, and about the year 1866 or 1867, emigrated to Butler 
county, Kansas, where they have reared a family and con- 
tinue to reside. Mr. Bogle has always followed the occupa- 
tion of farming. 

DAVID A. BARR. 

David Alexander was the second child of William and 
Sarah Barr. He was born, as well as his brothers and 
sisters, on the old Wills homestead in Rush Creek town- 
ship, Fairfield county, Onio. The date of his birth was Sep- 
tember 14, 1833. In April, 1856. he was married to Anna 
Matilda Martin, daughter of John and Isabelle Martin. 
They raised a very respectable family of children, most of 
whom are married and still living. 

Their second daughter, Estella Isabelle married John 
Gingher and died in Columbus, Ohio, on the 12th of No- 



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vember, 1896, at the age of 33 years and 21 days. vShe left 
two children. 

Anna Matilda, wife of David A. Barr, was a most excel- 
lent christian woman. She was kind in her disposition and 
devoted her married life to the good of her family. She 
was a good housekeeper and an exceptionally good cook. 
In short, she was a good wife, a good mother, a good neigh- 
bor, a good woman. She died November 7, 1880, at the 
age of 43 years, 10 months and 23 days. 

Beside Estella Isabelle there were born to David A. 
and Matilda Barr, James Austin, born April 14, 1857, mar- 
ried to Anna Houston Oct. 10, 1883. 

Alma Jane, born May 21, i860. She has been an in 
valid a good part of her life. 

Erwin Vincent, born August 21, 1865, Married Mag 
gie Bell Pool Feby 25, 1891. He is in the mill and grain 
business in Stoutsville, Fairfield county, Ohio. 

Sarah Matilda, born October 6, 1868. Mairied to U. 
G. Broyles April 26, 1893. They live in Columbus, Ohio. 

Etta Rebecca, born September 5, 1870. She is at 
home and has been her father's housekeeper and main 
standby since the marriage of her older sisters. By those 
who know her she is accounted a most excellent girl indeed. 

The youngest, Arthur Clarence, was born November 20, 
1875. Was married to Maggie D. Daubenmire Dec. 31, 1896, 

David A. Barr continues to reside on a part of the farm 
on which he was born and raised. He has been an indus- 
trious, hard-working man. For years he has been an elder 
in the United Presbyterian church and an active, working 
member thereof. He has always borne the reputation of an 
accommodating, honest, reliable, upright citizen. 

JOHN W. BARR. 

John W. Barr, the next member of the family, was 
born Jany 30, 1836, and died May 27, 1866. He married 
Lucy McGinnis in November, i860. She died December 



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1 8, 1878 at the age of 39 years and 23 days. These were 
quiet home loving people. While they made no great stir 
in the world nor gained renown, yet they were honest, in- 
dustrious and frugal. They had the respect and esteem of 
their relatives and neighbors. John W. Barr was a man 
who could not be induced to do a low or mean thing. He 
was generous hearted and always ready to help anyone in 
need. As boy and man he was quick tempered and could 
not be moved from a position once taken, having a good 
deal of Scotch tenacity in his make-up, yet he was of a very 
kindly, forgiving disposition. No one was more ready to 
forgive a wrong or more repentant for a hasty word spoken 
than was he. There was born to John and Lucy Barr a 
son and daughter. The son was named Joseph Edson, the 
daughter Sarah Margaret. 

The next in the family of William Barr was Margaret 
Jane. She was a jolly, lively, handsome girl. She was 
married to Z. M. Bogle, a cousin to her sister Mary Eliza- 
beth's husband. During the first twenty-five or more years 
of their married life they resided in Perry county, Ohio, and 
then removed to Crawford county, Kansas, where their 
children and children's children have grown up around 
them. Since the marriage of their youngest son they left 
their beautiful farm in his care, and they have gone to 
Pittsburg, Kansas, to end their days in peace and quiet, 

William Calvin was the youngest child of William and 
Sarah Barr. He was but a small boy when his father died, 
and his mother dying a few years later he was left an or- 
phan, mdeed. But he was well cared for by his older broth- 
ers and sisters. He had his home among them and they 
looked after his moral and intellectual training. Before he 
had fully arrived at the years of manhood the civil war 
came on. He felt it his duty to obey his country's call and 
enlisted in the 17th Ohio regiment of volunteers, in which 
regiment he continued to serve until honorably discharged 



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at the close of the war. He afterward married Sarah Ann 
Hazlett and removed to Iroquois county, Ills. After the 
birth of a son Mrs. Barr died in Ills. W. Calvin Barr mar- 
ried a second time and removed to Michigan, where he 
died. He was born June 29, 1843. He left one son, R. H. 
Barr, who is an honored and useful minister of the United 
Presbyterian church. 

JANE TAYLOR. 

The next in the family of David and Margaret Brown, 
was their daughter Jane, who was born May 6, 18 10, and 
died Nov. 19, 1890, at the age of 80 years, 6 months and 13 
days. In the year 1834 she was married to John Taylor, 
who at last accounts was still living. Since the death of 
his wife he has made his home among his children, mostly 
with his son William. (Since writing the foregoing John 
Taylor died at the age of about 90 years.) John and Jane 
Taylor were both very industrious, economical people, and 
through industry and economy accumulated quite a compe- 
tence. They were both worthy and respected members of 
the United Presbyterian church. They had a family of 
eight children, three sons and five daughters, all of whom 
were reared to habits of industry, economy, honesty and 
morality. Their children were: 

Mary Jane, who married David Yost. He is dead and 
she has been a helpless invalid for some years. 

Margaret, who married William Neely, and has been 
dead for quite a number of years. They spent most of their 
married life in White county. Ills. 

Sarah Ann, who married Henry Jones. She was the 
first of the family to die. 

Elizabeth, who married David Thompson. They are 
both living and prospering and have raised a respectable 
family. 

Nancy married George Sharp. She is an industrious, 
energetic woman. Mr. Sharp is an honest, upright citizen. 



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and for a number of years held the office of justice of the 
peace. They are the parents of an intelligent, well-doing 
family of children. 

The eldest son' and sixth child of John and Jane Tay- 
lor, William Brown, named for his mother's only brother, 
married Nancy Nagnie. They lived a quiet peaceable life 
tt)gether until a few years ago, when she died from the ef- 
fects of a painful surgical operation performed at a hospital 
in Columbus, Ohio. A sponge, which was used in the op- 
eration, was left within the abdomen necessitating a second 
operation, which resulted in death. 

David, the second son, married Mary Jane Fullerton. 
He removed to White county. Ills., where he died several 
years ago. 

The youngest son, John Stewart, died about the time 
he reached manhood. He married Ann Zillah Neely and 
died about three months afterward. 

John Taylor, his wife and all their children have been 
members of the United Presbyterian church, 

WILLIAM BROWN. 

William Brown, the fifth child and only son of David 
and Margaret Brown, was born in Pleasant township, Fair- 
field county, Ohio, on the 13th day of June, 18 12. On the 
20th day of January, 1835, he was married to Rebecca 
Wylie, who was born March 27, 18 12. Of this union were 
born eleven children in the following order: David Vincent, 
Rebecca Eleanor. Phebe Amanda, infant son, who died at 
the age of ten days, Zillah Ann, William Wylie, James Ren- 
wick, Jane Eliza, Margaret Almeda, Nancy Isabelle and 
Joseph Cameron. 

William Brown was named for his grandfather, as his 
father had been named for his grandfather. Being an only 
son he remained on the farm where he was born and raised 
until he was nearly forty-one years old. Here nine of his 
children were born, and here they played in the same yard, 



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ate fruit from the same orchard and carried water from the 
same spring that he and all his sisters had done. In the 
spring of 1853 he removed one mile north from the old 
homestead. In consideration of three hundred dollars his 
father had deeded him the one hundred acres, which he had 
received from his father, it being the north one hundred 
acres of the half section purchased by William Brown from 
Samuel Hamill in 1806. Before removing to this farm, the 
William Brown of whom we now write, had purchased forty 
acres lying adjoining on the north his one hundred acres. 
Here he resided until the fall of 1871, when he sold his pos- 
sessions in Ohio and removed to Bates countv, Mo. Here 
he purchased from Rev. E. B. Calderhead, a tract of land 
containing 354 acres, lying on the state line between Mis 
souri and Kansas. 

The improvements on this land at the time of his pur- 
chase were of a very primitive character. It was all prairie 
land, but very little of it having been brought under culti- 
vation. Nearly, or quite nine-tenths of it was lying in a 
state of nature. While he owned this farm he built a com- 
fortable and commodious dwelling, fenced the entire tract, 
brought it nearly all under cultivation, planted orchards and 
vineyards, and just at a time when it was ready for him to 
enjoy the fruit of his labors, he sold it and removed to Ore- 
gon. This was in the autumn of 1889. 

The youngest son, Joseph C, who was then married 
and had three children, and also the youngest daughter 
Bell, accompanied the father and mother to their new 
home in the far west. They settled in Linn county, Ore- 
gon, where Rebecca Brown died May 31, 1891, at the age 
of 79 years, 2 months and 4 days, and William Brown died 
July 3, 1 89 1, aged 79 years and 20 days. 

He was a man of many sterling qualities. He was not a 
large man, about 5 ft, 7^ in. in height and of rather slender 
build. He was a good man physically, his activity and energy 




William and Rebecca Brown. 



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making up what he lacked in size. Very few men, either large or 
small, had greater powers of endurance or could accomplish 
more manual labor in a given time than he. He was re 
markable for his quick wit as w^ell as for his quick motions. 
He seemed to always have a response ready for whatever 
might be said to him. He was an exceedingly mirthful 
man, always full of fun, even in old age. Could give and 
take a joke, and was particularly fond of playing innocent 
practical jokes. His friends thought at times this propen- 
sity led him too far. He was warm-hearted,liberal and gener- 
ous. There was nothing he would not undertake for a 
friend. He was thoroughly honest. In all business trans- 
actions his word was his bond. His ability and integrity 
was recognized by his neighbors, and, while he was never 
an aspirant for office or political preferment, yet he was 
frequently called into council and required to take part in 
public affairs. He was elected nine successive times to 
the office of township trustee, and that too, without solicita- 
tion on his part and generally against his expressed wishes. 

When about 22 years old he made public profession of 
religion in the old Associate Reformed church at Rush 
Creek, Ohio. In this path he trained his family and had 
the satisfaction of seeing each of his children, as they came 
to years of discretion, unite either with the Associate Re- 
formed church or its successor, the United Presbyterian. 
He was an active useful member and took great interest in 
the affairs of the church. 

He always loved the company of young people and es- 
pecially that of his own children. His warm, impulsive 
nature was shown in his firm, friendly, cordial handshake. 
He was ever a favorite with his nephews and nieces and 
always entered heartily into their sports and was just as 
ready to share their sorrows. He was one boy who was 
never spoiled on account of being an only son in a large 
family. He was always loved and respected by his many 



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sisters. He was always their counselor and the friend to 
whom they turned in every trouble and trial. He consider- 
ed it his religious duty to look after the welfare of his 
aged parents and his sisters, especially those 
of them who, in the providence of God, had be- 
come widows. He was not only an industrious 
man, but provident as well, and consequently prosperous. 
He was very solicitous for the welfare of his family, and 
especially anxious that his children should improve such 
school advantages as were within their reach. He left to 
his posterity the heritage of a good name. 

His wife, Rebecca, was the daughter of William and 
Rebecca Wylie. She was born in Perry county, Ohio, but 
principally raised in Muskingum county, about two miles 
north of Uniontown, She was a woman of fine mind, which 
she improved by close reading. She was a student of the 
Bible, and few persons understood its teaching better or 
followed them more closely. She was a highly respected 
woman by all who knew her. Respected for her intelligence, 
her good common sense and her high moral character. She 
never shunned to condemn what she believed to be wrong 
or neglected to speak out on behalf of that which she be- 
lieved to be right. She was a woman of clear and decided 
opinions on all moral questions, and she had the courage of 
her convictions. She was not only highly respected by her 
husband's parents and sisters, but greatly beloved by them. 
In all matters of controversy or difference of opinion they 
deferred greatly to her opinion. 

She was a woman of deep piety and much prayer. Her 
greatest care was that her children should be true christians, 
and next, that they should be intelligent, useful members of 
society. She left her impress on her family and on many 
of those with whom she was acquainted. Her influence 
was always for good. She was a good wife, a good mother, 
a good neighbor, a good member of society. The 1 1 th to 



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the 31st verses inclusive of the 31st chapter of Proverbs, 
may well be applied to her. 

Only about two and a half months intervened between 
the births of these two people, and only a little more than a 
month elapsed between their deaths. In infancy they were 
rocked in the same cradle, in youth they were lovers, in 
their young manhood and womanhood they were joined 
together in the holy bonds of matrimony. They spent a 
long, happy and peaceful life together, having lived as hus- 
band and wife for the period of 56 years, 4 months and 1 1 
days. They were peaceful and lovely in their lives and in 
death they were not long separated. 

For the present, in speaking of the children of this 
worthy couple, we shall omit any mention of the eldest. 

Rebecca Eleanor, the second child and eldest daughter 
was born June 4, 1837. She was a black-haired, black-eyed 
rosv-cheeked, steady, quiet girl. She was much given to 
reading and meditation. While, perhaps not quite as quick 
as some of her sisters, yet her perseverance and retentive 
memory brought her up even with the best of them. 

On March 15, 1857, she was married to James McBride, 
a quiet, peaceable, industrious-, sober, well-meaning man. In 
dispositions they were well suited to each other. Their 
general makeup and characteristics seemed to be much the 
same. The first 7 or 8 years of their married life were 
spent on the old McBride homestead in Muskingum county, 
Ohio. They then removed to near Mount Perry, in Perry 
county, Ohio. Here they purchased a farm on 'vhich they 
lived for a few years, selling it they purchased another in 
close proximity to the first, on which they resided until 
1883 or '84, at which time they disposed of their farm and 
removed to Bates county, Mo., where they purchased a farm 
on the state line between Missouri and Kansas, about one 
and a quarter miles north of the Marias Des Cygnes river. 
Here they continued to reside until the fall of 1890, when 



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they removed to their present home in Linn county, Oregon, 
Their children are: Amanda, William, Idella, Anna Alme- 
da and John. 

PHEBE AMANDA. 

Amanda was married to Clarence Stockton, who was 
killed by being- thrown from a horse. She has two children. 
Otto Roy and Ella Margaret. 

Phebe Amanda, the third in the family of William and 
Rebecca Brown, was born January iith, 1839. She was 
in many things the opposite of her elder sister. As a girl 
she was of slender build, and fair complexion, quick of mo- 
tion and good at repartee, full of fun, although inclined to 
frivolity, she was quick to learn. She was always lively 
and fond of fun, but withall a good, steady worker. She 
availed herself of such opportunities for an education as 
was afforded by a good public school and afterward attend- 
ed several terms of an academy and thus procured quite a 
fair English education. On the 6th of Nov. 1867, she was 
married to James R. Dunlap. He was a large, portly man, 
6 feet, 3 inches tall and well proportioned. He was pos- 
sessed of a fine mind, which he improved by careful read- 
ing, study and observation. He was born in the city of 
Philadelphia, Pa., and came of good Scotch Covenanter stock, 
his parent having been born and reared in Scotland. When 
James was but a very small boy his parents moved to Ohio 
and located in the northern part of Muskingum county, on 
what was locally known as Scotch Ridge. 

After their marriage James and Phebe Dunlap made 
their home near the old homestead until the spring of 1870, 
when they emigrated to Jasper county. Mo. After remain- 
ing in Jasper county a year they purchased a small farm on 
the prairie, twelve miles west of Greenfield, Dade county, 
Mo. Some years after they bought another small farm ad- 
joining the corporation of the town of Greenfield, Mo., 
which place they occupied until they sold it in the fall of 



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1891- From there they removed to Linn county, Oregon, 
where they continue to reside. 

Their living children are Ella Belle, Maggie Wallace, 
Elizabeth Almeda, Mary and William. They are all intel- 
ligent, moral, upright young people. Ella Belle and Mag- 
gie W. are successful teachers. 

ZILLAH ANN. 

The next on the list is Zillah Ann, who was born Nov. i, 
1842. She was tall, had dark hair and eyes. She was a good 
talker and had the perseverance which enabled her to gen 
erally accomplish that which she undertook. Her mother 
said that in disposition she was more like her father than 
any other child he had. 

She was married to John A. Lefker on Feby 22, 1876. 
He was a man of bright intellect and quick perceptions. 
In business he was generous, gentlemanly, quick and accu- 
rate. The only bar to his being a thoroughly successful 
business man was his sanguine temperament, which led 
him to venture farther than his means would warrant. He 
was warm-hearted and hospitable and always stood by his 
friends. At the time of their mariage he was engaged in 
the lumber and milling business at the state line ford on the 
Marias Des Cygnes river. 

In the fall of 1877 he sold his saw mill and moved his 
grist mill to Butler, Mo. While living in Butler they buried 
two children. A son, Clyde, was born in Butler, Mo., and 
is yet living. In 1891 the family removed to Cleveland, 
Ohio, where they continue to reside. 

While a resident of Bates Co., Mo., Jno. A. Lefker served 
a term as Mayor of the city of Butler and a term as presid- 
ing Judge of the county court, both of which positions he 
filled acceptably to the people and with honor to himself. 

WILLIAM WYLIE. 

The next member of this family, William Wylie, who 



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was l)orn Oct. ii, 1844, and was named for his maternal 
grandfather. He was the best educated and best informed 
member of the family. From young manhood until past 
middle life he was most of the time engaged in the profes- 
sion of teaching. He taught in Ohio, Missouri and Kansas. 
He located in Missouri in the year 1875. He was married 
to Ellen Gravett in Lancaster, Ohio, Aug. 14, 1880. In 
marrying Miss Gravett, he married a most excellent chris- 
tian lady. Intelligent, refined, industrious and one worthy 
the respect and confidence of all good people. One who 
was highly esteemed by all with whom she was acquainted. 
For the first few years after their marriage they resided in 
Butler, Mo., where he was for the most part engaged in 
teaching. 

When they left Butler they removed to the western 
part of the county, where he engaged in farming for a short 
time and then removed to Trading Post, Kansas, where for 
some years he was engaged in mercantile business with A. 
W. Hall. They returned to their farm in Bates county. 
Mo. Having sold the farm, they removed, in 1890, to Den 
ver, Colorado, where they continue to reside. He held the 
office of justice of the peace both in Missouri and Kansas. 
He was also a ruling elder in the Richland (now Amoret) 
United Presbyterian church. Besides the parents, the fam- 
ily consists of four daughters, Bessie, Edith, Florence and 
Mabel 

The first three are all gaduates from the Denver high 
school. Bessie and Edith are both engaged in teaching. 

JAMES RENWICK. 

James Renwick was the next in the family. He was 
born Jany 20, 1847, in Fairfield county, Ohio, and died Dec. 
25, 1881. On the 31st of Dec. 1872, he was married to Ag- 
nes McCandlish. In November, 1871, he moved with his 
father's family from Ohio to Missouri, leaving a promise 
with his intended that so soon as he had a home prepared 



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for her in the west he would return for her. This he did. 
They were married under her father's roof and she came 
with him to their new home, where they continued to reside 
happy in each other's love until the day of his death. 

Of this union three daughters were born, Anna Letitia, 
Martha Annetta and Rebecca Alice 

Martha Annetta died November 24, 1881, and Rebecca 
Alice two days after. Thus in the space of one month was 
the mother bereft of her husband and two sweet girls. The 
eldest of the three is married to a Mr. Montooth and lives 
in Putnam county, Ohio. A few months after the death of 
James R., his widow with her little daughter went to her 
folks in Ohio, where a few years later she was called to 
meet her loved ones, who had preceded her to the better 
land. 

Aggie, as we generally called her was a very pleasant, 
agreeable woman. She was a good wife and mother and a 
very agreeable neighbor. 

James R. Brown possessed a clear, quick, active mind. 
His perceptive faculties were good. Physically, he was 
more athletic than his brothers. Mentally, he was the 
superior of the majority of men. He was quick to resent a 
wrong, and just as quick to forgive an injury. He was free 
hearted and generous almost to a fault. He would discom- 
mode himself at any time to accommodate a friend. His 
acquaintances were almost invariably his friends. He was 
very jovial in his nature, loved a joke and could see the 
ridiculous side of a thing. Up to the time when his health 
failed, which was two years or more previous to his death, 
he was a very active, energetic man and took a prominent 
part in the affairs ot the community in which he lived. 

Jane Eliza Brown was born March 15, 1849, and died 
May 10, i860. She was a pretty child and of an uncom- 
monly sweet disposition. 



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MARGARET ALMEDA. 

Marp^aret Almeda, the niath child born to William and 
Rebecca Brown, was born on the 28th day of November, 
185 1. On the 7th day of October, 1875, she was married to 
William Calvin Brown. They have had but one child, 
Jennie. She is still at home with her parents. Meda, as 
she was called by the family, was a handsome black-haired, 
black-eyed girl. She was pleasant, evenly tempered and 
industrious. Always disposed to do what she believed to 
be right. She has been for nine years afifiicted with rheu- 
matism. So much so that a great part of the time she has 
been unable to walk without crutches. But she has borne 
her affliction with christian patience and fortitude. The 
first five years of their married life were spent on the 
farm except one winter in Kansas City, Mo. In 1890 they 
bought property in Amoret, Mo., and built a comfortable 
house, which has been their home ever since. They made 
a trip to the state of Oregon, spent several months at Hot 
Springs, Ark., and lived one winter in Pittsburg, Kansas. 
They also made a trip with wagon and team to New Mex- 
ico, where they remained several months, returning by rail- 
road. Most of these changes were made with a view to 
benefitting Meda's health. 

We shall speak further of W. C. Brown in connec- 
tion with the family of Robt. M. Brown. 

NANCY ISABELLA. 

Nancy Isabella, the tenth child in the family of Wil- 
liam and Rebecca Brown, was born Dec. 15, 1854, and was 
married to Robert Crawford, June 25, 1891. 

Belle was a sprightly, little fair-haired girl. She was 
fond of fun and mischief and a favorite of her father. She 
went with her father's family to Linn county, Oregon, where 
she was married. They reside in the town of Albany. They 
have but one child, a son named Clyde. Robert Crawford 



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is a carpenter. He is an honest, industrious, well-meaning 
man. 

JOSEPH CAMERON BROWN. 

Joseph Cameron, the youngest child of William and 
Rebecca Brown, was born May 21, 1857. He was married 
to Mary Coulter, of Barton county, Mo., Oct. 3, 1883. She 
was of good covenanter stock. A modest, quiet, unassum- 
ing woman, who attends well to her duties as wife, mother, 
and neighbor. Having been reared and trained in the fear 
of the Lord, she is conscientious christian. 

Joseph C. was a good boy to his parents, always an 
obedient, considerate son. He is an industrious, honest 
man and an intelligent christian. They have four children, 
Urie, Clarence Almeda, J. Renwick and Joseph WiUard. 

Of the children of William and Rebecca Brown seven 
of the nine who lived to be grown were successful school 
teachers. 

NANCY WYLIE. 

In the family of David and Margaret Brown, Nancy 
was the sixth child she was born March ist, 18 16. She was 
married to Joseph Wylie March 20, 1836. 

JOSEPH WYLIE. 

Joseph Wylie was born March 25, 18 10. He was a 
son of William and Rebecca Wylie and a brother to the 
aforementioned Rebecca, wife of William Brown. 

Nancy, having been brought up to habits of industry 
and economy, as were all the children of David and Marga- 
ret Brown, was a prudent woman. She was left a widow 
with the care of a family and a farm when her oldest child 
was a boy of not more than 1 5 years. But with the help of 
this son she managed to rear her family respectably and 
give them each one a liberal education. She was spared 
to see them all grown and occupying respectable positions 
in life. She died March 20, 1888, at the age of 72 years. 
She was a good woman. 



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Joseph Wylie was a man of fine parts. Physically he 
was not a very strong man, but quite quick and active. In- 
tellectually he was considerably above the average. He was 
a diligent student of the Bible, and an intelligent conscien- 
tious christian. He died May 29, 185 1, aged 41 years, 2 
months and 9 days. In his younger days he followed teach- 
ing, but the latter part of his life was spent on a farm. The 
following children were born to this couple: William M,, 
Anna Margaret, Martha J., David B., Joseph Harvey and 
Rebecca E 

WILLIAM M. WYLIE. 

William M, was born Jany 11, 1837. He received a 
good common school education, sufficient to fit him for 
teaching. He was married to Ella Dunlap on the 28th day 
of Feby. 1866, She was an excellent woman, intelligent, 
religious and faithful. She was and invalid for some years 
previous to her death, but bore her affliction with christian 
fortitude. She died October 30, 1892, at the age of 52 
years, 5 months and 3 days. 

The following named childien came as pledges of af 
fection to them: Maggie E,, Mary Zonetta, Jane Idella and 
Joseph Elmer. All of whom are married except Joseph 
Elmer. 

William Wylie was married to his second wife Oct. 12, 
1898. She was Mrs. Henrietta McKee. 

After his first marriage he went to live on the old Dunlap 
homestead, where his wife was reared. He purchased the 
interest of the other heirs in the farm and continues to oc- 
cupy It as his home. He is possessed of a good share of 

energy, vitality and sound sense. He is a successful farmer 
and fruit grower. Has a fine home and a pleasant, sensible 
companion for a wife. 

Maggie E., eldest daughter of William M. and Ella 
Dunlap Wylie, is married to Charles Smith and lives near 
Mt. Perry, Ohio. Their family consists of two boys. Wm, 
Smith deals in timl)er and lumber. 



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Mary Zonetta Wylie married Greely Brown and lives 
Linicking county, Ohio. Mr. Brown is a farmer and has 
a competence of this world's goods. 

Jane Idella Wylie is married to Chester Marshall. 
Their home is in New Concord, Ohio, where Mr. Marshall 
is a professor in Muskingum college, his Alma Mater. After 
graduating from Muskingum, Professor Marshall took a 
special course at Harvard. 

Anna Margaret, the next in the family of Joseph and 
Nancy Wylie, was born April 3, 1838, and was married to 
John G. Sterrett on the 17th of March, 1861. She died 
August 19, 1884, after having been an almost helpless in- 
valid for a number of years. 

John G. Sterrett and his wife, Anna Margaret, were 
the parents of two children, both boys, named Joseph Har- 
vey and Charles Alvah. The first named died at about the 
age of twenty months. 

Charles Alvah is married and lives near Mt. Perry, 
Ohio. He has six children, four sons and two daughters, 
whose names are as follows: Lulu Adalaid, Hollis Campbell, 
William Paul, Maggie Annetta, David Russell and John 
Frederick. 

MARTHA J. 

Martha J. Wylie was born June 14, 1840, and died 
June 20, 1870. She married Robert Kifipatrick, who died 
Feby 25, 1898. They had one eh4M, -ar son^ whose name <^^^ ^^T-^^ 
William Wylie Kifkpatrick. He married a daughter of 
Rev. John W. McClung and is himself a Presbyterian min- 
ister. 

DAVID BROWN WYLIE. 

David Brown Wylie was born in Muskingum county, 
Ohio, July 2, 1843. He was married to Miss Maggie J. 
Ardrey Nov. 4, 1868. She died March 23, 1886. To this 
couple were born four daughters. 



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Evlyn E., who is married to G. A. Graham and lives in 
Lancaster, Ohio. 

Mattie M., married to John E. Smith lives near Mt. 
Perry, Ohio. 

Florence Birdella, who is at home with her father and 
step-mother. 

Stella Blanch, the youngest, died July 5, 1896. 

On the 9th of April, 1891, David B. Wylie married 
Miss Mattie M. McCartney, of North Salem, Guernsey 
county, Qhio. They have no children. 

David B. Wylie has the reputation of being an upright, 
straight-forward man. He is an industrious, progressive, 
successful farmer and an active, influential member of the 
United Presbyterian church of Mt. Perry, Ohio. 

He has a good, substantial home, a pleasant, energetic 
wife, and treats his visitors in a cordial and hospitable man- 
ner. 

REBECCA E. WYLIE, 

Rebecca E. Wylie was born Aug. 14, 1845. Was mar- 
ried to Robert Gibson Ardrey Nov. 1 1, 1874. Of this union 
there were born four daughters, Nancy Alta, Hannah Flor- 
ence, Mary Clyde and Clara Edna. 

Nancy Alta married Robert W. Thompson Oct. 20, 
1896. They have one daughter, Alta Esther, born Sept. 
29, 1897. 

Mary Clyde Ardrey was married to David H. Thomp- 
son Nov. 20, 1 90 1. 

JOSEPH HARVEY WYLIE. 

Joseph Harvey Wylie was born Aug. 2, 1848, and died 
in Beulah, Kansas, March 20, 1890. On the nth day of 
November, 1874, he was married to Miss Martha Virginia 
Scott. To them were born two sons. Earl Chambers and 
Glenn Cleland. 

Joseph H. Wylie, usually called Harvey, was a man of 
more than ordinary mental endowments. He was a very 



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sincere, earnest, intelligent christian and a very successful 
teacher, in which occupation he was engaged at the time 
he was stricken with his last sickness. His death brought 
sorrow to the hearts of his pupils, his neighbors and ac- 
quaintances, but especially to his brethren and sisters in 
the church of which he was such a useful and highly 
respected member. 

MARGARET S. HENRY. 

Following Nancy came Margaret S., as the next one of 
David Brown's children that lived to be grown. She was 
born Feby 8, 1818, and died Oct. 3, 1889, at the age of 71 
years, 7 months and 25 days. She was a free-hearted, jolly 
clever woman. She was a good christian woman and punc- 
tual in the observance of her religious duties. But with all 
this very few people had a better appreciation of mirth than 
she. 

She married Thomas Henry Nov. 26, 1840. He was 
born March 16, 18 12, and died April 20, 1885 at the age of 
73 years, i month and 4 days. Thomas Henry was a man 
of good judgment and firm principles. His integrity was 
undoubted his word was never called in question. He was 
for many years a ruling elder in the Rush Creek United 
Presbyterian church. 

He was a carpenter by trade, but during the last 25 or 
30 years of his life he was mainly engaged in farming. Of 
him it might be said that he was diligent in business, fer- 
vent m spirit and faithful in all things- While not by any 
means a wealthy man yet by industry and economy he accu- 
mulated a snug competence. 

Their children were named Levi P., Martha Ann, 
James K , Margaret Euphemia, William B., David C, T. 
Harvey, Robert and John K. 

As a family, these children were above the average in 
intelligence and were the equals of any in point of respect- 
ability. 



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LEVI P. HENRY. 

Levi P. Henry was born September 9, 1841, and on 
March 7, 1867, was married to Jennie McCandlish. After a 
few years' residence in the community in which they were 
both raised, they removed to Putnam county, Ohio, where 
they purchased a farm, on which they continue to reside. 

They both made a profession of their faith and joined 
the United Presbyterian church in their young days and 
have remained worthy members of the same ever since. In 
his young days Levi P. Henry taught school and was twice 
elected assessor of his township. 

Martha Ann was born November 3, 1843, and died 
May 8, 1859. wShewas a very bright, intelligent girl. Soon 
after arriving at the years of young womanhood she went 
into a decline and died. 

Margaret Euphemia was born March 27, 1847, and was 
married to William F. Thompson Nov. 2, 1871. 

Euphemia was a favorite with at least one cousin. She 
was a good girl and possed a great deal of energy. She mar- 
ried William Thompson. He was a farmer by occupation. 
She being in very delicate health for a number of years they 
gave up farming and removed to Lancaster. 

WILLIAM B. HENRY. 

William B. Henry, who was named for his mother's 
only brother, was born Dec. 22, 1848. He obtained a liberal 
education and was for several years a successful teacher. 
He was also a member of the board of school examiners of 
his county. He was honored with several official positions 
in his township and was twice elected clerk of the courts of 
his native county, after which he engaged in the business 
of manufacturing brick and tile. His brick and tile plant 
was destroyed by fire in Jan'y, 1901, but wrs immediately 
rebuilt on a larger scale, and is being very successfully con- 
tinued by him and his sons. He married Mary 



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Stuart Nov. ii, 1876, and lives in Lancaster, Ohio. They 
have two sons and a daughter. 

THOMAS H. HENRY. 

T. Harvey was born Nov. 12, 1852. Soon after arriv- 
ing at manhood he was employed atRushville, Ohio, buying 
and shipping grain, afterward at Pleasantville in the same 
business For a number of years past he has been engaged 
in the mercantile business in Pleasantville, Ohio. He mar- 
ried Carrie Brooks, Nov. 7, 1883. They have three children. 

Robert has never married. Since the death of his 
mother he has made his home with his brothers and sisters. 
And is associated with his brother Harvey in the mercan- 
tile business. 

John K., the youngest child of Thomas and Margaret 
Henry, graduated from Muskingum college, studied law, 
was admitted to the bar, and is practicing his profession in 
Columbus, Ohio. He was born March 3, 1859, and married 
Sept. 20, 1890. 

The next one of David and Margaret Brown's children 
who lived to years of maturity was Anna W. She was a 
woman of clear perceptions and strong character. She 
tried to know her duty and do it. Nearly all her life long 
she has been a member of the Associate Reformed and af- 
terward the United Presbyterian church at Rush Creek, 
Ohio. Her endeavor has been to live her religion. 

She married John R. Buchanan, who died Aug. 5, 1853, 
at the age of 34 years, 1 1 months and 9 days. In 1858 she 
married Robert Black, who died sometime in the 70's. 

John R. Buchanan was a highly respected citizen. He 
was a hard working, as well as a very accommodating.agree- 
able man. Before he reached his 30th year he was chosen a 
ruling elder in the Associate Reformed church of Thorn- 
ville, Ohio. On removing to the bounds of the Rush Creek 
congregation his official position was recognized and he 
continued to exercise the same. 



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There were born to John R. and Anna W. Buchanan 
the following named children: Thomas Martin, Margaret 
Euphemia, Nancy Jane, Mary Asenath and Martha Juletta. 

The husband and father and the eldest and youngest 
daughter all died in the month of August, 1853. 

The son, Thomas, was an unusually bright boy in his 
studies, surpassing all his classmates at school. He suc- 
ceeded uncommonly well in the study both of mathematics 
and the languages. He was an extensive reader and had a 
very retentive memory so that he was well versed in both 
ancient and modern history. When about 17 years old he 
went to Hebron, Indiana, to visit an uncle, the Rev, J. N. 
Buchanan. Soon after going there he engaged in teaching, 
which occupation he followed but a few weeks. This was 
during the memorable days of 1862, and he being imbued 
with the spirit then abroad in the land, enlisted in the serv- 
ice of the government. Almost immediately after his en- 
listment the regiment to which he belonged was sent to the 
front. Their first engagement was in that terrible battle of 
Shilo, or Pittsburg Landing. Here it was he received his 
death wound. Being pierced through the lung with a min- 
nie ball, he died about two weeks afterward in the hospital 
at Louisville, Ky. 

Thus was a noble young life, as were thousands of 
others sacrificed on the altar of his country, laid down at 
what he considered a call to duty. Thus was his mother, 
who had only a few short years before, been bereft by 
death, of her husband and two children, now called on to 
mourn the death of an only son. One who was only a boy 
in years, but a man in intelligence. One in whom a mother 
had taken great pride and of whose future she had good 
reason to expect great things. When we reflect on these 
things, we are constrained to say with General Sherman, 
"war is hell." 

When will man endowed with reason and charged with 



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responsibility, man made in the imag^e of God and redeem- 
ed by the blood of the son of God learn to settle difficulties 
and disputes in a rational and christian manner. The read- 
er will please pardon this digression. 

Nancy Jane Buchanan married Richard C. Wylie and 
lives in Pittsburg, Pa. He is a minister in the Reformed 
Presbytrian church, and said to be a man of considerable 
ability. 

Mary Asenath married Jesse Stuart and lives in West 
Rushville, Ohio. These were both nice, smart girls. 

EUPHEMIA M. THOMPSON. 

Euphemia M. was the next in the family of David and 
Margaret Brown. Her nieces and nephews, as well as many 
others, always called her Aunt Effie. 

She was a woman of great goodness of heart. Exceed- 
ingly generous and hospitable. Also out-spoken and free 
to express her convictions. She was industrious and ener- 
getic. She was endowed with a good memory and as she 
was always very loyal to and took great interest in her own 
people, she was well posted in the history of her family and 
connections. To her the writer is indebted for man}'' of the 
facts here recorded. 

She was born Dec. 1 1, 1828, and when a young woman 
joined the Associate Reformed church of Rush Creek, un- 
der the pastorate of Rev. E. B. Calderhead, and has ever 
since been an humble follower of the Master. 

On the 19th day of April, 1853, she was united in wed- 
lock with William Thompson, a most worthy man and an 
excellent, intelligent, christian gentleman. William 
Thompson was a man largely above the average. He was 
the soul of honor. He would scorn to do a low or mean act. 
He was quiet and very unostentatious in his manner. Con- 
sequently, one had to be well acquainted with him to know 
his real worth. But the life he lived was of that sterling 
character that caused him to be highly respected and ap- 



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predated in any community in which he resided. 

He was a farmer by occupation, and a very hard work 
ing man, yet outside the learned professions very few men 
were his equal in point of intelligence. He was endowed 
with a most excellent, clear comprehensive mind, which was 
well stored by reading the best authors of history, both do- 
mestic and foreign and science, literature and ficticn. But 
the book with which he held oftenest and closest acquaint- 
ance was his Bible. It was his daily companion and guide 
in his business and intercourse with his fellow man. He 
was born in Perry county, Ohio, July i6, 1828, and died in 
Tippecanoe county, Ind., April 15, 1863. 

In less than a month after their marriage this couple 
then in the bloom of young, strong manhood and woman- 
hood, emigrated to Indiana. They were accompanied by 
his mother, two sisters and an invalid brother, who was the 
youngest of the family and not yet fully grown. The farm 
which they purchased lay partly in Clinton and partly m 
Tippecanoe county. It was a timber farm with but slight 
improvements at the time they took possession of it. Here 
these young people went to work with energy and hope, to 
prepare a home which should be an abiding place for them 
in their declining years should it please providence to spare 
them to that time. But soon after that they had built for 
themselves a comfortable dwelling and added other home 
comforts, the husband and father was called to that better 
home "not made with hands eternal in the heavens" and 
she, who but a few years before was a happy-hearted bride 
was a mourning widow with three orphan children to pro- 
vide for. 

In the year 1882, she sold her possessions in Indiana 
and removed to Crawford county, Kansas. Here she pur- 
chased a farm, on which the family resided until the fall of 
1888, having sold their farm they removed to Polk county, 
Missouri, where they purchased a farm of 200 acres, seven 




EuPHEMiA Thompson, 
Son, David W., and daughter, Mary T, Harshman. 



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miles northwest of Eolivar. Having sold this farm they 
returned to Crawford county, Kansas, in the year 1895, and 
purchased a farm adjoining the village of Beulah, In the 
year 1900 they sold this farm and purchased a vacant lot in 
the city of Pittsburg, Crawford county, Kan., on which they 
erected a large, comfortable dwelling in which they now 
reside. 

Of the union of William and Euphemia W. Thompson 
there were born the following named children: David W., 
Anna Margaret, Mary T. and William W. 

David Wright Thompson was born Feby 26, 1854. He 
married Elizabeth Simpson April 2, 1896. He is a carpen- 
ter by trade, and lives in Bolivar, Mo. He is an honest, 
intelligent man and a good mechanic. 

Mary T. Thompson was born May 6, 1858. She was 
married to Manson O. Hareshman Jany 19, 1884. They 
have no living children. On the 24th of November, 1884, 
a son was born to them, but died the same day he was 
boin. On June 5, 1902, another son was born, but lived 
only a few hours. 

Mary T. Hareshman is a woman of intelligence, refine- 
ment and energy. 

By occupation M, O. Hareshman has, until lately, been 
a farmer, in which calling he has been ably assisted by an 
industrious and economical wife. In the summer of 1900 
he engaged with a Mr. Haun, in the wholesale commission 
and storage business in Pittsburg, Kansas, in which busi- 
ness he is still engaged. 

Anna Margaret Thompson was born Feby 11, 1862 and 
died Jany 15, 1870. 

William Wylie Thompson was born Jany 8, 1857, and 
died Jany 15, 1857. 

Lucinda C. Scott has been a member of the Thompson 
family since the i6th of July, 1857. Since the marriage of 
M. O. Hareshman to Mary T, Thompson they,together with 



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the mother and Lucinda C. have lived together as one fami- 
ly, Lucinda C. Scott was married in Sept, 1901, and Hves 
in western Kansas. 

Mary M. Brown was the youngest of thirteen children 
born to David and Margaret Brown. She was born Nov. 
22, 1834, and was married to William j^. Dunlap, Feby 26, 
1 86 1, There were born to them five children, Margaret 
Ellen, Jennie E., who died in infancy, A. Etta, Cameron J. 
and Owen R. ;?//,; . ' ?//, /{-:. . / 7' /^-^7"' 

Mary M. Brown had the best education of any member 
of her father's family. She began teaching school at the 
age of 15 and continued with much success until the time 
she married, except a few months each year, which she im- 
proved by attending school for the purpose of still further 
prosecuting her studies. 

William H. Dunlap is a brother to James R. Dunlap, 
who has been mentioned as the husband of Phebe A., 
daughter of William and Rebecca Brown. William Wylie's 
first wife was also a sister to James R. and William H. 
Dunlap. 

Thus William H. Dunlap was uncle to his brother and 
his sister and his wife aunt to her brother in-law and sister- 
in-law. Reader please figure it out for yourself. 

William H. Dunlap has always been an industrious, 
careful, prudent man, and withall an intelligent christian, 
and an office bearer in the church, and one who delighted 
in the service of God's house. 

^ During the dark days of the civil war he heeded the 
call of his country and went out to do battle for the stars 
and stripes. 

In doing so he had to leave behind him a 
young wife and two small childr^en, and while thus engaged 
the younger of the two died and was buried during his ab- 
sence. In the spring of 1866 they removed from Muskin- 
gum county, Ohio, to Johnson county. Mo. Here they 




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MRS. ETTA .>1( WILLI A>IS 

Mrs. Etta D. McWilliams, 85, 

I died at the home of her son, Dr. 

R. M. McWilliams today at 10:15 

la. m. She had been in ill health 

i f or several months. 

Surviving other than the son 
[is a brother, Mr. 0. R. Dunlap, of 
[Girard, Kansas. 

She has made her home here 
Iwith her son for about five j'ears. 

Christian Science services will 
|be held at the Torneden chapel 
Ipriday at 8 p. m. with Mrs. Fan- 
nie P. \yalker, Tulsa, Okla., as 
reader. 



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MRS. ELLA CUTHBE ^TSON DIES 

Mrs. Ella Cuthbertso.', 88, sister of 
O. R. Dunlap, died Wednesday, April 
26 at the home of her Civughter Mrs. 
Robert Wyatt in Sterling, K'.^ns., where 
6h€ had made her home for 18 yea. 6. 

Other survivors are a daughter, Mrs. 
Lorene Harrison of Alaska; a son, Dr. 
W. A. Cuthbertson of Great Bend, 
Kans., a sister Mrs. Etta McWilliams 
of Pleasanton and a brother O. R. 
Dxmlap of Girard. 

Funeral services were held in the 
United Presbyterian. Church inn Sterl- 
ing Friday afternoon, April 28 with Dr. 
Hugh Kesley officiating. Burial was in 
the Sterling cemetery beside her hus- 
band ,wlio preceded . her . in . deatlx 
three years. 






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You will remember we recently 
Lsted several College people who 
H^ ^"eluded m the new "Who's 
Who Among American Women." 
«! ^^7^"^! ^^^" the book, but we 
are told that Lorene Cuthbertson 
prnson of Anchorage, Alaska 
f°^";S^y of Sterling, is' included 
m the volume. She is widely 

w^^^r. ^' T" .Anchorage business 
vvoman and civic leader. I 



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bought and improved a farm, which they enlarged by pur- 
chase from time to time until the spring of 1881, when they 
sold their possessions in Missouri and removed to Crawford 
county, Kansas, about four miles west of where the thriving 
city of Pittsburg now stands, and have continued to reside 

ever since on the farm purchased by them when first going 
to the state. 

(Their four living children are all professing christians 
and members of the church in which they were trained. 
Margaret Ellen was born Dec. 11, 1861, and Feby 28, 
(j^* 1883, was married to Matthew Cuthbertson, a very respecta- 
>« <k ble, worthy, intelligent, prosperous farmer of Crawford 
s^ county, Kansas. He is also a christian gentleman. They 
\v ij have two children, a son William and a daughter )^ma/^<^'^f/^o^, 
"^v They are bright, attractive children. 

^1 A. Etta was born Sept. 25, 1865, and was married to 

r^_c\ WilHam C. McWilliams, on August 28, 1888, and lives in 
Pueblo, Colorado, where she is the proprietress of a large 
lodging house and Mr. McWilliams is interested in a hard 
ware store. They have but one child, a son named William.^<^ , 

Cameron J. is married and lives in Crawford county, 1/ 
Kansas, and is engaged in farming. He was married to 
Mollie J. Collins Dec. 25, 1898. 

Owen R. is single and makes his home with his par- 
ents. He is a farmer and stock raiser. He was for two or 
three years a student in Cooper Memorial Institute at Ster- 
ling, Kansas. Before engaging in farming he was a suc- 
cessful teacher, fo,/ v^ ^, ^^wv /,j5r^ (p,/S7^ ' ] 

This concludes what we intend saying concerning the 
family of David and Margaret Brown and their immedfate 
descendants, except as it relates to their grandson, D. V. 
Brown as appears in the following narrative which the gen- 
eral reader is at liberty to pass over. 

DAVID V. BROWN. 

David V. Brown, the eldest child of William and Re- 



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becca Brown, was born in Pleasant township, Fairfield 
county, Ohio, Dec. i6, 1835. He was born and reared to 
his 17th year on the farm which was purchased by his 
great grandfather, Robert McTeear, when the family first 
came to Ohio. It was not only the birth place of his father, 
but his home during the first 41 years of his life. 

Being the eldest son of an only son and being named 
for his paternal grandfather, and that grandfather naturally 
fond of children, and considering that that grandfather's 
house was to him as much home as was his own father's 
house, it is not to be wondered at, that David V. was a 
particular favorite of that grandfather, and received from 
him many tokens of his love and affection, and when it is 
further known that during his childhood and youth his 
father had grown sisters who were unmarried, who petted 
and made much of this boy, David, and rather encouraged 
him in being forward, it is no wonder that he was a spoiled 
boy. Rather the wonder is that he did not turn out worse 
than he did. His father or his mother never spoiled him, 
and to their holding him with a tight rem and particularly 
to his mother's training and influence may be attributed 
whatever of good was found in him. 

Young David's life was not greatly different from that 
of other farmer boys. His time was divided between doing 
the work usually done by boys on a farm and attending the 
district school. By the time he reached his i8th year he 
had completed all the branches taught in the public schools 
of that day. Beside what were termed the common branches 
the course included first lessons in algebra, United States 
history and natural philosophy. He then engaged in teach- 
ing. He taught his first school in Tippecanoe county, Ind. 
He never boasted of his success in this, his first attempt at 
teaching. It did him some good, however, as it took some 
of the boyish conceit out of him. After the close of his 
term of school he returned tt) Ohio and during the next 




Olive A. Brown. 



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summer worked on his father's farm. After teaching an- 
other term of school he attended an academy in West 
Rushville two terms. Then for more than twenty years he 
farmed during the summer and usually taught school in 
the winter. He taught in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri 
and Kansas. 

On the the 27th day of March, 1862, he was married to 
Olive A. Wilson, daughter of John E. and Nancy Wilson. 
From that day to the present time she has been to him a 
true and faithful wife. Always industrious, a model house- 
keeper, an exemplary christian, a mother whose chief con- 
cern has been for the welfare of her family. She was born 
February 25, 1839, in Greenfield township, Fairfield county, 
Ohio. 

On the 30th day of August, 1864, David and his 
family, which consisted of his wife and one child, started 
with wagon and team to move to Shelby county. Ills., arriv- 
ing at their destination Sept. 12, 1864. They were accom- 
panied on the trip by Mrs. Brown's sister, Anna M. Wilson. 

The family resided in Shelby Co., Ills., until April 9, 
1872, when they removed to Bates county, Missouri. The 
family at that time consisted of the father, mother and five 
children. They came by railroad from Shelbyville, Ills, to 
Centerview, Mo., where William and James R. Brown, father 
and brother, met them with a team. After remaining over 
night with the family of William H. Dunlap, they started 
on the morning of April 1 1, and arrived at their new home 
on the state line between Missouri and Kansas, April 12th, 
1872. In March 1881 the family moved to Butler, the 
oountv seat of Bates county, and that has been their home 
ever since. During the time the family lived in Illinois and 
including the first nine years of their residence in Missouri, 
David's time was principally occupied m farming and school 
teachmg, the monotony of which was varied somewhat by 
the duties of several township offices. In the spring of 1861 



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he was elected assessor of his native township and re-electecl 
in 1862. In 1866 he was elected tax collector of Holland 
township, Shelby Co., Ills., and in 1867 and 1868 he was 
elected township clerk. In 1 869-70-71 he represented his 
township on the county board of supervisors. This office 
also constituted him treasurer of the township funds. He 
also served a term as deputy sheriff of Shelby county, and 
for some months an assistant in the office of the county 
clerk. After removing to Missouri he was elected clerk of 
Homer township. In November, 1880, he was elected 
Judge of the Probate court of Bates county. Mo. He was 
twice elected Mayor of the city of Butler, Mo., each time for 
a term of two years. It 1895 he was appointed by the gov- 
ernor, public administrator to fill an unexpired term and 
in November, 1896, was elected to this same office for a 
term of four years, and re-elected in 1900. 

There were born to David V. and Olive A. Brown 
eight children, five of whom survive. The eldest, Penelope 
B. was born Jan'y 27, 1863, in Fairfield county, Ohio, on 
the same farm on which her father and grandfather were 
born. She is unmarried. Anna Josephine was born Dec. 
29, 1863, and died Feb'y 20, 1864. 

Rebecca Alice was born in Shelby county, 111., May 7, 
1865, and died in Bates county, Mo., June 11, 1877. She 
was a very bright, intelligent girl, also a remarkably affec- 
tionate and obedient daughter. 

Cosby Lee was born in Shelby county. Ills., May 29, 
1867. She is not married. 

William Wilson was born in Shelby county, Ills., Aug. 
13, 1868. He is a single man. 

Nancy Clara was born in Shelby county, Ills., Oct. i, 
1 87 1, and was married to Thomas P. Baldwin, June 18, 
1 89 1. Since their marriage they have resided in Butler, 
Mo., except about one year that they lived in Concordia, 
Kan. They have five children: Kenneth C, born May 22, 




Olive A. Redfield, 



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1892. Helen Lucile, born Dec. 8, 1893. Arthur Brown, 
born April 27, 1896, Clara Almeda born, Feb'y 20, 1899, 
and William born Sept. 9, 1901. 

Olive Amanda and twin brother were born in Bates 
county, Mo., Dec. 19, 1874. The brother died Jan'y i, 1875. 

Olive A. was married to Robert P. Redfield Aug. 11, 
1897. During the first three years of their married life 
they lived in Davenport, Iowa, where he was a teacher in 
the high school. In the fall of 1900 he accepted the posi- 
tion of principal of the high school in Marinette, Wiscon- 
sin, to which place they removed, but a year afterward 
returned to Davenport, Iowa, where he had been elected 
principal of one of the ward schools. They have three 
children, David Lionel, Ruth Elizabeth and Gail. 

David L. was born in his grandfather's house in Butler 
Mo., May 25, 1898. Ruth Elizabeth was born in Daven- 
port, Iowa, Aug. 30, 1899. Gail was born in Marinette, 
Wisconsin, June 16, 1901. 

David and Olive Brown's five living children are all 
graduates and hold diplomas from institutions of learning. 

Penelope and Oosby have both taught every year since 
their graduation, mostly in town or city schools. Olive 
taught prior to her marriage. Before Clara's marriage she 
clerked in business houses. 

William W., since his i8th year, has been employed in 
large steam laundries in Kansas City, Mo., and Denver, Col. 

We will now return to the immediate family of Wil- 
liam and Sarah Brown, the great grand parents of the pres- 
ent generation. 

WILLIAM BROWN. 

Their second son William was born in Pennsylvania, 
March 19, 1780, and was married to Sarah McTeear April 
3, 1806, and came the same spring with the Brown and Mc- 
Teear families to Fairfield county, Ohio. Of this union 



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there were born three sons, Robert M., William M. and 
David W. 

William Brown was a very kindly disposed man and 
warmly attached to his family, his friends and his church. 
The entire family were members of the Associate Reform 
afterward the United Presbyterian church. 

In the spring of 1837, having sold their possessions in 
Fairfield county, they removed to the northern part of Perry 
county. Here they were largely instrumental in building 
up and maintaining the church of their choice. 

Sarah McTeear Brown was born in Pennsylvania on 
Dec. 22, 1787, and died in Perry county, Ohio, Dec. 27, 1855. 
She was a woman of great energy, physical ability and 
force of character. She inherited from her father, Robert 
McTeear, strong, active mental faculties, and in large meas 
ure transmitted to her sons all of the aforementioned char- 
acteristics. 

William and Sarah Brown were deeply religious people. 
The song of praise and the voice of prayer could be heard 
daily ascending from their home. They never neglected 
to entertain strangers. Indeed hospitality was one of their 
chief characteristics. 

After the death of his wife William Brown made his 
home with his sons, except about a year, when his sister, 
Elizabeth Yost kept house for him. In 1863 when his son, 
Robert M., removed with his famity to Wood county, Ohio, 
he went with them. On account of the rough roads and 
extremely cold weather at the time of his wife's death, she 
was buried in the grave yard close to their home, instead 
of being taken to the graveyard at Rush Creek. But his 
and her parents, as well as numerous other relatives, having 
been buried in the Rush Creek burying ground, and that 
ground having been by his father donated for a cemetery, it 
was their intention and desire that this should be their last 
resting place. Consequently before he left Wood county, he 



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exacted a promise of his son Robert that he would bring 
his body back to the old grave yard in Fairfield county. He 
also exacted a promise of the writer that he would, during 
the following winter, see to it that the remains of his good 
wife, who had then been dead eight years, be removed to 
the pi ice where he expected his own body to be buried, and 
pointed out the exact spot where the graves were to be dug. 

On the 1 1 th day of the following March he came to 
visit his brother David, having first visited the grave yard 
where he expected to find the grave of his wife. A few 
hours afterward meeting the writer he said "I see you have 
not yet fulfilled your promise to me. Now, I want that at- 
tended to while I am here, for when I leave here this time 
I never expect to be back again until I be brought back to 
be buried." 

That same evening he walked about half a mile to the 
home of his niece, Martha Barr. After partaking of a hearty 
supper and spending the evening in pleasant conversation, 
he retired, apparently in his usual health. During the 
night, the family hearing an unusual noise issuing from his 
room, entered and found him prostrate on the floor and un- 
conscious. He was replaced in bed, but never regained 
consciousness and at 8 o'clock on the morning of March 12 
1864, he passed to his reward. 

Arranofements were then made and the remains of his 
wife were exhumed and one wide grave was prepared and 
the bodies of this Godly couple were placed side by side in 
the old Rush Creek grave yard, there to rest until the res- 
urrection morn. 

ROBERT M. BROWN. 

Robert McTeear Brown, oldest child of William and 
Sarah Brown, was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, May 21, 
1807. He was married to Mary Kay ton, Jan'y 29, 1835. 
In the spring of 1837 they removed to the northern part of 
Perry county, Ohio. In the year 1848, he was elected aud- 



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itor of his county. On taking charge of the office he rented 
out his farm and removed his family to Somerset, where he 
resided for eight years, he having filled the office so accept 
ably that he was elected three successive terms of two 
years each. At the expiration of his third term he engaged 
for one year in mercantile pursuits and one year in the 
brokerage business. He then returned to his farm on which 
he made substantial and permanent improvements. He 
built a commodious brick house, an excellent bank barn, a 
good dressed stone spring house and other improvements of 
like character. 

In 1863 he sold his possessions in Perry county, and re. 
moved to Wood county, Ohio. From there, in the year 
1866, he removed to Johnson county, Mo., and from there, 
in 1868, to Bates county. Mo., where he purchased a farm 
on which were no improvements, and which he improved 
and on which he continued to reside until his death, which 
occurred on the 22nd day of December, 1874, 

Robert McTeear Brown was a man much above the 
average, both in mental and physical ability. He was en- 
dowed with a fine intellect, which was improved by a liber- 
al education and extensive reading. He was a man of deep 
piety, strong religious conviction and earnest devotion. His 
Bible was his daily companion and its teachings his guide. 
He was a constant reader of books of devotion and was very 
able in prayer. 

He was once sent by Muskingum county Presbytery as 
a delegate to the United Presbyterian Assembly in Philadel- 
phia, Penn. Years afterward, in speaking of this, he look- 
ed on it as the most honorable mission he ever filled, as the 
one from which he derived the most information and 
pleasure. 

He was a very hard working man. When about 20 
years old he met with an accident which left him with a 
stiff knee for life, but notwithstanding this he performed 



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more manual labor than most men whe have the full use of 
their limbs. He was a very entertaining coversationalist. 
He had an excellent memory and a fund of mirth and anec- 
dote. He was for more than 35 years a ruling elder in the 
United Presbyterian church. 

His wife Mary was the daughter of Thomas Kayton, 
who was for many years a member of the session of the 
Associate Reform church at Rush Creek, Ohio. She was 
born in Baltimore, Maryland, Oct. 28, 18 10, and died in 
Amoret, Mo., Dec. 3, 1890. She was a woman of much 
force of character. She was industrious and economical, 
loyal to her church and her friends; hospitality and generos- 
ity were strong traits in her every-day life. She delighted 
in entertaining her friends, and especially ministers of the 
gospel and their wives. Her house was always the home 
of preachers. She was an exceptionally good mother, and 
during all the years of her motherhood her great concern 
was for the welfare of her children. 

Robert M. and Mary Brown were the parents of four 
sons and one daughter. 

The eldest, James Harvey, was born March 19. 1837. 
He married Jane Boring. Before his marriage, he had re- 
ceived a liberal education and chosen teaching as his pro- 
fession. Some years after marriage being desirous of more 
thorough qualification for his chosen vocation, he attended 
a good institution of learning from which he graduated and 
ever since has been engaged in teaching and superintend- 
ing schools. 

He removed at the same time his father did from Perry 
county to Wood county, Ohio, and from there to Johnson 
county. Mo., thence to Bates county. Mo., and from there to 
Reynoldsburg, Ohio. 

Mary E., second child and only daughter of Robert M. 
and Mary Brown, was born in Perry county. Ohio, May 29, 



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1840. She was a remarkably bright girl and a good 
scholar. For a number of years prior to her marriage she 
was engaged in teaching. vShe was married to W. A. Cal- 
derhead in Bates county, Mo., March 27, 1871. In the sum- 
mer of 1872 they emigrated with an ox team to Harvey 
county, Kansas. At that time nearly all that part of Kan- 
sas was an unbroken prairie. Here they homesteaded a 
quarter section of land and made some improvements there- 
on, intending it to be their home. But alas for human cal- 
culations. On the 23rd day of July, 1873, after less than 
two days' sickness, her spirit left its earthly tenement and 
returned to God who gave it. She left a little girl not 
quite two years old, whom she had named Edna. 

This child was taken and cared for by the grandparents 
and was by them loved for her own sake as well as her 
mother's. Before she was fully grown she went to make 
her home with her father, who had not, up to this time, re- 
married. In the meantime he had turned his attention to 
the study of law and had entered on the practice of his pro- 
fession in Maryville, Kansas. He is now serving his third 
term in congress as the representative of the 5 th Kansas 
district. He is the eldest son of the Rev. E. B. Calderhead, 
who was for twenty years pastor of the Rush Creek United 
Presbyterian congregation, and who baptized and married 
a great many of those spoken of in this narrative. 

Thomas Calderhead, third child of Robert M. and Mary 
Brown, died at the age of about two years. 

William Calvin, fourth child born to Robert M. and 
Mary Brown, was born in Perry county, Ohio, on the 6th 
day of June, 1847. He was about 21 years old when his 
father's family located in Bates county. Mo., and with the 
exceptions of a few months' absence at two or three differ- 
ent times, this has been his home ever since. 

As was noted in the history of the family of William 



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and Rebecca Brown, W. C. Brown and Margaret Almeda 
Brown were married Oct. 7, 1875. 

Since their marriage they have always owned a home 
in Bates county, Missouri, In the meantime they have 
spent one winter in Kansas City, Missouri, and several 
months in each of the following places: Oregon, Hot 
Springs, Ark., Pittsburg, Kansas and Roswell, New Mexico. 

W. C. Brown has always been a stirring, active, ener- 
getic man. His business has mostly been that of a farmer 
and stock raiser. But he has at various times engaged in 
other occupations. In his young days he taught school, and 
.since his marriage he engaged for some years m mercantile 
business in the town of Amoret, Missouri. He has usually 
been successful in his business pursuits and has accumulated 
considerable property. 

David Alva, youngest child of Robert M. and Mary 
Brown was an afflicted child from his birth. He died before 
reaching the age of manhood. 

William Martin Brown, the second son of William and 
Sarah Brown, was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, Sept. 20, 
1809. He served three terms as treasurer and two terms 
as probate judge of Perry county, Ohio. His first wife was 
Jane McNaughten, to whom he was married in 1832. She 
was a daughter of Thomas McNaughten, Esq. The Mc- 
Naughtens were people of property and influence in the 
community in which they lived. She died Aug. 8, 1850. 

In 1852 William M. Brown was married to his second 
wife. Miss Margaret Shafer. He died Dec. 22, 1862. To 
William M. and Jane Brown were born the following named 
children: Rebecca Jane, born in 1833; William Owen, born 
in 1835; Sarah Eliza, born in 1838; J. Thomas, born in 1843; 
Noah Mc. born in 1847. 

Of Rebecca Jane mention has already been made as 
the wife of Samuel W. Barr. 

W. Owen Brown served his country during the civil 



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war as lieutenant of Co. B 17th regiment, O. V. I. At the 
close of the war he received an honorable discharsfe and 
soon after married Martha J. Sturgeon and engaged in the 
business of farming and stock raising. He has no children. 
He lives on his farm near Thornville, Ohio. 

Sarah Eliza Brown married Samuel Ream. She died 
December, 1881, She was the mother of two boys. Owen 
B., the eldest, is married and lives in Somerset, Ohio. 

The second son, Luke, died when young. 

James Thomas Brown was married in 1864 to Ellen 
Groff. Of this union there were born three sons. The 
family went to New York City, where Thomas was for 
some years in the employ of the street railway. He died 
about 1895 or 1896, and according to the best information 
I have, his sons are all dead. 

Noah Mc. Brown married Miss Sarah Palmer and lives 
in Pataskala, Licking county, Ohio. He has no family. 

William M. Brown and his second wife had three chil- 
dren. The oldest died in infancy. 

The second child, Mary Ann, familiarly called Dolly, 
married H. C. Van Voorhes and lives in Granville Licking 
county, Ohio. Mr. VanVoorhes has for several years rep- 
resented his district in the national congress. 

The youngest, Benton Carlisle Brown, died while still 
a small boy. 

DAVID WAKKER BROWN. 

David Walker Brown, third and youngest son of Wil- 
liam and Sarah Brown, was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, 
November 21, 181 1, was married to Eliza Cherry on Jan'y 
8, 1835. He was a man of prominence in the community. 
He had a large circle of acquaintance. He was tall and 
commanding in appearance. His principal occupation 
through life was that of a farmer and stock raiser. He was 
for years largely interested in breeding and training horses. 
He and his wife were both members of the United Presby 



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terian church, and as their home was for many years near 
the U. P. church, three miles east of Thornville, they enter- 
eained many ministers and others who came a distance to 
attend church. 

After the death of his wife, which occurred July ii, 
1880, he connected with the Presbyterian church in the 
communion of which he continued to live the balance of 
his days. 

His wife Eliza was a most excellent woman. She was 
of a very lively, cheerful disposition. They owned an ele- 
gant home to which their friends were always welcome. It 
was a very great pleasure to visit in their home. To young 
people it was especially enjoyable. Uncle Davy and Aunt 
Liza, as they were mostly called, were both so mirthful and 
delighted so much in seeing young people enjoy themselves 
and had such a free social way that every one felt the wel- 
come which was as freely given. 

David W. Brown was a strong character. A man of 
strong likes and dislikes. He was also a man of great en- 
ergy, industry and physical courage as well as physical abil- 
ity. He died Dec. 23, 1892. 

He left the following children: JohnC, Alminary, Eliza 
Jane, Azubaa, Robert, David Mc, and Charles L. 

John C. married Harriet Macklin. They had two chil- 
dren. A daughter, Viola, died at the age of 25, The son, 
Pressley, born Oct. 10, 1864, is married and has one son, 
Herbert. 

John C. Brown was born November 20, 1836, and died 
March 2, 1901 In his young manhood he was engaged in 
farming and breeding and training horses. Afterward he 
was manager and part owner of a large steam flouring mill 
in Thornport, Ohio. For many of the last years of his life 
he was a famous auctioneer. He was employed far and 
near to cry public sales. 

Alminary Brown was born April 3, 1839. She married 



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John Yost Feb'y 22, i860. To them were born five children, 
Albert A., Coman, Roberl, Evaline and Nellie. The last 
named died in 1894, at the age of 21 years. 

Robert is a United Presbyterian minister. He was for 
some years pastor of a United Presbyterian church in St. 
Louis, Missouri, but now of Courtland, N. Y. The other 
members of this family are married and live within the vi- 
cinity of where they were raised. 

Eliza J. Brown was born Jany 6, 1843, was married to 
Dr. Allen Whitmer, Dec. 28, 1865. After the death of Dr. 
Whitmer, which occurred Feb'y i, 1882, she married Noah 
Bowers, Jan'y 25, 1899. She never had any children. 

Azubah A. Brown was born Nov. 17, 1845, was married 
to John P. Eversole Oct. 22, 1868. They live at Bern Sta- 
tion, Ohio. They have no children. 

Robert M. Brown born Feb'y 7, 1847. He is not mar- 
ried. 

David McG. Brown, born May 18, 1854, married to 
Margaret Neal Sept 13,1887. They have two sons and 
four daughters living. 

Charles L., the youngest member of David W. and 
Eliza Brown's family, was born July 30, 1858, was married 
to Martha Frank Jan'y, 1882. They live in Thornville, 
Ohio, and have no family. 

To come back now to the family of the originar Wil- 
liam Brown. 

ROBERT BROWN. 

The youngest son, Robert married Nancy Glassford. 
To them were born nine children. The following named 
lived to years of maturity: Albert, Sarah, Mary Ann, Wil- 
liam, Samuel, Elizabeth and Martha Jane. 

Albert married Elizabeth Thompson. Sarah married 
Turner Morehead. Mary Ann died at about the age of 20 
years. I do not know whether William ever married or 
not. vSamuel married a girl in or near Rohobeth, Perry 



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county, Ohio. I do not know her maiden name, neither do 
I know anything about their childien. Elizabeth married 
a man by the name of Steele. I think Martha Jane died 
unmarried while young. Robert Brown was born in Mifflin 
county, Pennsylvania, in the year 1790, and came with his 
father's family to Fairfield county, Ohio, in the year 1806. 
He died in March, 1847. After the death of his father he 
received as his inheritance the old homestead on which, in 
the year 1838, he erected a good brick dwelling house which 
he occupied as his home the remainder of his days. His 
wife's death occurred nearly seven years before his own. 

Robert Brown had in large measure many of the prom- 
inent characteristics of the Brown family, namely: a jovial 
disposition, generous hospitality, sturdy honesty, an indom- 
itable will backed up by physical courage, which made him 
ready at all times to face his enemies or his detractors and to 
defend what he considered the rights of himself or his 
friends. He was a man of strong will and great determina- 
tion. 

So far as the writer knows the family of Robert Brown 

are all dead, unless it be his son William, of whom I have 
heard nothing for 25 years. 

William Brown's oldest daughter Mattie married Ga- 
briel Lookins and died in Pennsylvania. 

Elizabeth Brown married John Yost, in Pennsylvania. 
In the year 1808 or 1809 they moved to Ohio and settled in 
Perry county, where they accumulated considerable prop 
erty. Mr. Yost died in November, 1853. His wife died in 
May, 1862. In their family were four sons, Isaac, William, 
Abram and John. 

The daughters of John and Elizabeth Yost were nam- 
ed Elizabeth, who married Ebenezer Reynolds; Sallie, who 
married Joseph Wilson; Polly, who marrid William Wil- 
son, and Patty, who married Joel Cooper. 

These all lived and died in Perry county, Ohio, except 



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Polly Wilson, who died in White county, Indiana. The 
four sons all married and raised families and all lived and 
died in Perry county, Ohio. 

Rosa Brown married Robert Walker. At the time of 
their marriage she was living with her parents in Fairfield 
county, Ohio. He was living in the eastern part of Mus- 
kingum county, Ohio, where he owned a large farm, to 
which he took his wife, and on which they resided to the 
end of their days. Their son William inherited the home- 
stead, on which he continued to reside and rear his family. 
Another son, Samuel, also lived and died in the same com- 
munity in which he was born and raised. 

Sarah Brown married Abram Yost, brother to John 
Yost, who was the husband of Elizabeth Brown. 

Abram Yost owned a farm in Perry county, Ohio, in 
the vicinity of his brother John. On this farm he lived and 
raised his family and here, too, his wife died at a good old 
age. In their family were seven sons: John, Isaac, William, 
David, Joseph W., Robert M. and Abram H. There were 
two daughters, Sarah B., who married John Huston, and 
Elizabeth, who married Thomas Ewing. 

The sons all married and reared families and are all 
dead, (1901) except Robert M., who lives in Shelbyville, 111. 
I The writer does not know much about the older chil- 
dren of Abram and Sarah Yost. Most of them have been 
dead quite a number of years and their families scattered. 

David Yost married Elizabeth Trout, who died and left 
one son, Julius. After his first wife's death he married 
Mary Jane Taylor. They resided for some years in Perry 
county, Ohio. Selling their farm, they bought another in 
Rush Creek township, Fairfield county, to which they re- 
moved, and on which they resided until Mr. Yost's death. 
He was an invalid for several years prior to his 
death. His widow resided on the farm for some years after 
his death. For some years past she has made her home 



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with a married daughter, and has been bedridden from a 
stroke of paralysis. 

Robert M. Yost married Lucinda Cusac, a most excel- 
lent woman. She was a helpmeet, indeed, and by her up- 
right, christian character commanded the respect of all who 
became acquainted 'vith her. After their marriage they 
lived part of the time in Perry county, and part in Fairfield. 
In the year 1865 they sold their farm in Ohio and removed 
to Shelby county, Ills., where they purchased another farm 
and on which they continued to reside for some years and 
then moved to Shelbyville, where they have lived quietly 
and comfortably. They are worthy members of the Presby- 
terian church, of Shelbyville. 

Robert M. and Lucinda Yost had two children to live 
to years of maturity, a daughter, Allie Jelette, and a son, 
Berthier S. Allie, who was a bright, intelligent, winsome 
girl, died in the years of her young womanhood. She was 
unmarried. For some years before her death she had been 
a successful teacher in the public schools of Shelbyville, 111. 
She was born May 10, 1855, died March 28, 1883. 

Berthier Stergis Yost was born Feb'y 21, 1861. He is 
unmarried and makes his home with his parents in Shelby- 
ville, 111. He has been for several years past engaged in 
the sale of farm implements, wagons, buggies, etc. His 
business seems to be prosperous. 

Robert M. Yost was born April 18, 1829. His wife 
Lucinda Ann, was born Dec. 18, 1832. They were married 
m Perry county, Ohio, Aug. 14, 185 1. Robert M. is the 
only living member of Abram and Sarah Yost's family. 

The writer has now given, so far as he is able, a short 
account of the families of William and Sarah Brown and of 
Robert and Elizabeth McTeear and their descendants down 
to the fifth and in a few cases, to the sixth generation. And 
while there may be some misstatements, the writer has 
tried to be accurate in all things. He has had to rely on 



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others for some of the data herein. Where characteristics 
of any one have been given, or any particular incident in 
the history of an individual has been mentioned, the facts 
have either come under the personal observation of the 
writer or he has had them from undoubted authority. He 
takes it that the writer of history or biography should, 
above all things, be truthful, and that is what has been at- 
tempted to be done in the preparation of this little book. 



THE WYLIE FAMILY. 

William Wylie was bom in county Derry, Ireland, in 
the year 1773, and came to America in 1791, landing at 
Philadelphia, where he secured employment as a farm hand. 
He was a weaver by trade, having learned the business in 
the land of his birth. After laboring some months as a 
farm hand he found employment at weaving, which occupa- 
tion he followed in the main until his return to Ireland, in 
the year 1798. He evidently remained in Ireland but a 
short time, for he returned to the United States and was 
married to Rebecca McClung, either in 1798 or the early 
part of 1799. He died November 17, 1853, at the age of 
80 years and 5 months. 

William Wylie was a very industrious, economical man, 
and while he did not amass a fortune, yet he did secure a 
competent portion of this worlds goods and did it honestly, 
and all who knew him realized that he enjoyed the blessing 
of God therewith. 

He and his wife were married in Pennsylvania, east of 
the Allegheny mountains, and shortly afterward crossed the 
mountains and lived a few years near Pittsburg, Pa. They 
did not remain there more than 2 or at most 3 years. They, 
with several other families, embarked on a flat boat and 
proceeded down the Ohio river. At the mouth of the Hock- 
ing river they left the flat boat. William Wylie, with his 
wife and one or two children and all their worldly posses- 
sions in a canoe or dugout of his own construction, proceed- 
ed up the Hocking river to the upper falls of said stream, 
about 75 or 80 miles above the mouth of the stream, some 



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eight or nine miles north of the city of Lancaster, Ohio, at 
which point, a few years afterward, was erected, and for a 
long time maintained, a flouring mill, known all over that 
region as the Rock Mill, on account of the precipitous fall of 
the water over the solid rock. They remained here but a 
year or so, Mr. Wylie meanwhile following his occupation 
of a weaver or any other honorable employment he could 
find. Let not his grandchildren nor great grandchildren be 
shocked nor grieved when I tell them that in those early 
days a part of grandfather Wylie's time was occupied in 
distilling spirituous liquor. In those days the business of 
making whiskey was thought to be as honorable as raising 
corn or wheat. A man might maintain his standing as an elder 
in the church and yet his business be that of manufacturing or 
a dispenser of ardent spirits. Let us not he too harsh in our 
judgment of them, but be thankful that our lines have fallen 
in better places, and remember that, perhaps in our igno- 
rance we are guilty of practices which we think are all right 
but which our children's children may condemn as severely 
as we do some of the things of which our progenitors were 
guilty. 

On leaving the head waters of Hocking, grandfather and 
grandmother Wylie moved to near Rush Creek, in Fairfield 
county, Ohio. In making this move they carried their pos- 
sessions in a cart drawn by one horse. 

After remaining in the vicinity of Rush Creek a few 
years they purchased 80 acres of land about three miles 
east of Somerset, in Perry county, Ohio, paying the govern- 
mant one hundred dollars therefor. Having made some 
improvement on this land they in, or about, the year 1809 
moved on it to make it their home. About the year 1 8 1 5 
they purchased 160 acres of land on Jonathan's creek, about 
two miles north of Uniontown, now called Fultonham. On 
this farm he built a substantial two-story brick house. Here 
they reared their family and continued to reside until all 



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their children were married and gone to homes of their 
own. 

In the year 1 846 or '47 they sold this farm and purchased 
a smaller one in the northern part of Muskingum county, in 
the vicinity of where two sons, John and Joseph, and one 
daughter, Martha McCammon lived. And here was where 
he spent his last days in peace and comfort, and died in the 
full assurance of salvation through the merits of the Re- 
deemer. 

William Wylie was of Scotch parentage, his father 
having been born in Glasgow, Scotland, and emigrated to 
the north of Ireland, where the subject of this sketch was 
born. It was from Scotland that Ireland received the most 
of her protestant population. 

He was a very industrious, energetic man. Also a man 
of very firm religious convictions. He came of good old 
Scotch Covenanter stock and was himself for many years 
• an elder in the Covenanter, or more properly called the Re- 
formed Presbyterian church. The word of God, together 
with Henry's Commentaries and other books of a religious 
or devotional character, were his daily companions and con- 
stituted a large part of his readmg. Consequently he was 
not only an earnest, conscientious, but also an intelligent 
christian. He was faithful in all he undertook and adorned 
his christian profession by an upright life. His walk and 
conversation were always in keeping with his profession. 

He was early in life one of those who opposed human 
slavery. He believed and argued that the holding of hu- 
man beings in bondage was a sin against God, and entirely 
contrary to the principles enunciated by the great Teachc*-. 
He was one of the original abolitionists and was proud to 
be so considered, and that too, at a time when the name of 
abolitionist was largely considered a term of reproach. And 
while the principles of the church of which he was a mem- 



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ber, principles to which he ardently adhered, did not per- 
mit him to take an active part in the affairs of the civil gov 
ernment, yet for this one thing, the abolition of slavery, he 
talked and prayed, and to this cause contributed of his 
means. Although he did not live to see the fulfillment of 
his hopes, he died in the full expectation of the fruition of 
his labors and his prayers. 

William Wylie had four brothers: Samuel, Moses, Jo- 
seph and John. The three last named came to America 
after William did. Joseph never was married. Samuel 
lived and died in Ireland. 

Rebecca, wife of William Wylie, was born in Pennsyl- 
vania, April, 1777, and died Jan'y 27, 1855, at the age of 
T] years and 9 months. She was a daughter of James Mc- 
Clung, who was killed by Indians when she was about two 
years old. I do not know what her mother's maiden name 
was. After the death of James McC.lung, his widow mar- 
ried David Martin, who ,in or near the year 1802, emigrated 
to Fairfield county, Ohio, and entered the half section of 
land which after his death was, in the year 1806, sold by his 
heirs to Robert McTeear, mention of which has been made 
in the beginning of the narrative of McTeear and Brown 
families. 

Rebecca McClung Wylie had one full sister, Sarah, who 
married Henry Sellers. She had several half-brothers, chil- 
dren of her mother after her marriage with David Martin. 
Among them we recall Joseph, who lived to be quite an old 
man, and died in Rushville, Ohio, James, who lives some 
miles southeast of Rushville, and more particularly we call 
to mind John, who married Isabel Shaw, and reared a large 
and respectable family, of whom Matilda was their young- 
est. She was heretofore mentioned as the wife of David 
A. Barr. 

Grandmother Wylie was a woman of very mild and 
even temper and of strong religious convictions. She took 



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•Threat care that her children should all be well instructed in 
the scripture and catechism. She reared them in the nur- 
ture and admonition of the Lord. As a consequence they 
all early in life made a profession of their faith in Christ, 
and lived honored and useful members of the church and 
died in the full faith and hope of a glorious resurrection to 
immortal life. 

She was also a very mirthful woman. She loved the 
church, of which she was an exemplary member. She hon- 
ored her christian profession by a Godly walk and conversa- 
tion. She was a good member of the church, a good neigh- 
bor, a good wife and a good mother. What greater praise 
could be bestowed on any woman. 

In the family of William and Rebecca Wylie there 
were three sons and five daughters who grew to manhood 
and womanhood. They came in the following order: Wil- 
liam, John, Isabell, Joseph, Rebecca, Sarah, Jane Eliza and 

Martha. 

WILLIAM WYLIE. 

William Wylie, son of William and Rebecca Wylie, 
was born in Pennsylvania, presumably, near Pittsburg, on 
Dec. 14, 1799, and died March 3, 1875. 

His first wife was Martha Harvey, to whom he was 
married May 3, 1821. She died Jany, 1824. He was mar- 
ried to his second wife, who was Rachel Calhoun, November 
28, 1826. She was born Dec. 19, 1803, and died April 2, 
1844, 

His third wife was Margaret Wallace. They were 
married Oct. 7, 1845. She was born in 18 16 and died May 
10, 1888. 

William Wylie and his first wife had two sons, Preston 
H. and James Mc. 

James Mc. Wylie was born Jany 13, 1824 and died 
Aug. 3, 185 I. He was a wagon maker by trade, and was 
of a quiet, retiring disposition. We shall speak more of 



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Preston H. and other members of the family further on. 

William Wylie's second wife bore him one child, a 
daughter Martha Juletti. She was born Jany 23, 1828, and 
died June 20 1828. 

By his third wife he was the father of six children, as 
follows: Mary Elizabeth, William Zenas, Margaret Jane, Re- 
becca Ann, David John Knox and Joseph Henry Ruther- 
ford. 

William Wylie was a fine looking man, over six feet 
tall and well proportioned, he was as fine a specimen of 
physical manhood as one would see in a day's travel. He 
was a plein-spoken, honest, kindly man, staunch of purpose 
and straightforward in manner, he was the very best type 
of honest manhood. He had strong and decided convic- 
tions on every moral and religious subject and had the 
courage of his convictions. 

He was reared in the Covenanter or more properly call- 
ed the Reformed Presbyterian church. He remamed stead- 
fast in the faith in which he was trained, the faith of his 
fathers, who in the days of religious persecution in Scot- 
land, were true Cameronians. He was all his life a member 
of and for many years a ruling elder in the Reformed Pres- 
byterian church, and was a firm believer in and a staunch 
defender of all her distinctive principals, as well as of the 
christian religion generally. He was always able and ready 
to give a reason for the belief that was in him. He was an 
intelligent christian and a very exemplary one. In things 
generally he was above the averge of men of his day, in 
point of intelligence. From the time his parents brought 
him, when about five old, from Pennsylvania to Ohio,nearly 
all the remainder of his life was lived in Muskingum county 
He owned a fine farm four miles west of Zanesville, on the 
Maysville and Zanesville pike. He tilled his farm with in- 
dustry, energy and good judgment, which secured him a 
competence. On this farm he reared his family and when 



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the end came he passed peacefully awa)' leaving his widow 
and children comfortably situated, though not wealthy, but 
he left them that which is better, a good name and the ex- 
ample of a well spent life. He was an uncompromising op- 
ponent of human slavery. His home was on the line of 
what was in the days of slavery termed the underground 
railroad. No fugitive from human slavery ever called at 
his door, but that he received material aid in the form of 
food, shelter, money or a ride toward what was considered 
the haven of safety. 

William Wylie was a man who looked the whole world 
m the face, because, as one who knew him well said of him, 
"he never did anything of which he was either afraid or 
ashamed the world should know." 

He died March 3, 1875, at the age of 75 years, 3 months 
and 19 days. His memory is still held in grateful remem- 
brance by children and children's children. 

PRESTON H. WYLIE. 

Preston H. Wylie, oldest son of William and Martha 
Wylie, was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, on the 
i6th day of April, 1822. 

On the day of April, 1853, he was by the Lakes 

presbytery of the Reformed Presbyterian church licens- 
ed to preach the everlasting gospel. He was ordained by 
the same Presbytery in May 1854, and was installed as pas- 
tor of the Lake Eliza congregation, in Indiana. He remained 
there until i860, when he accepted a call to Rushsylvania, 
Ohio, and in connection with this he was, in 1861, settled 
over the congregation of Macedon. After sixteen years 
labor he resigned the pastorate of Rushsylvania, but contin- 
ued that of Macedon fourteen years longer. So that he was 
pastor of the Macedon Reformed Presbyterian congregation 
about twenty-eight years. In 1887 he was installed as 
pastor of the Reformed Presbyterian church at Sterling, 



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Kansas, which, on account of the health of his family, he re- 
signed m 1 89 1, and in the same year he was settled at Lon- 
donderry, Ohio, where he is at the present time, and where 
he continues to preach and fulfill the duties of pastor of the 
congregation, although he is in his 80th year. 

His first wife was Mary Ann George, by whom he had 
seven children, five sons and two daughters. The oldest 
died at the age of four years. William lived to the age of 
17 years, was a fine scholor for one of his age. It was the 
intention that he should enter the ministry, but he took 
typhoid diptheria and died. The other three sons of Rev. 
P. H. Wylie, viz: James, Thomas and Joseph, all studied 
for the ministry and became good preachers of the gospel. 
Joseph died in 1890, and Thomas in 1894. James is the pas- 
tor of a good Reformed Presbyterian congregation at New 
Galilee Penna. He was licensed by Lake Presbytery and 
ordained by Pittsburg Presbytery, His first charge was at 
Spingfield, Ohio, where he labored for about eleven years. 
He has been pastor of the Galilee church for ten years. 

Rev. P. H. Wylie's daughter, Martha Rachel, is a mis- 
sionary in Syria, under the auspices of the Reformed Pres- 
byterian church. She went out in 1875, and has been con- 
tinuously engaged in foreign missionary work ever since. 
She has been home but twice on vacation to visit her people. 
She returned the list time in August, 1901. While at home 
a great part of her time has been spent lecturing in the 
cause of missions generally and more particularly the one 
with which she is connected. 

She is a graduate of Geneva college, a lady of fine abil- 
ity and very acceptable as a lecturer. 

Thomas Wylie was licensed by the Reformed Presby- 
tery of Pittsburgh, and ordained by Iowa Presbytery. He 
was first settled in Washington, Iowa, where he remained 
eight or ten years, when he resigned his charge and joined 
the Presbyterian church. He took charge of the congrega- 



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lion at Bedford, Iowa, where he labored acceptably until his 
death in 1895. 

Josheph Wylie was licensed and ordained by Pitts- 
burg Presbytery and accepted a call to McKeesport, Pa., 
where he preached some years and was then called to Olathe, 
Kansas, where he labored with unusual success until his 
death in 1890. 

Thus it is seen that all of Rev. P. H. Wylie's children 
are or have been laborers in the Lord s vineyard. This 
shoivs the result of good family training and good example. 

After the death of Rev. P. H. Wylie s first wife, he mar- 
ried Rebecca A. Heys, after her death he married Margaret 
George Copeland. 

He has been a faithful, conscientious minister of the 
gospel and is now spending the evening time of his days in 
Londonderry, Ohio. I never had the pleasure of hearing 
Rev. P. H. Wylie preach but one sermon, but I remember 
that with much pleasure. It was a strong sermon and de- 
livered with much earnestness. From those who have had 
more opportunities of hearing him than I have had, I have 
heard the remark, "P. H. Wylie never preaches a poor ser- 
mon." 

Of his sincerity and genuine Christianity I think no one 
ever had a doubt. 

Mary Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of William and 
Margaret Wylie, was born May 23d, 1847, she never mar- 
ried. She was a bright, handsome, intellectual girl. Soon 
after arriving at mature womanhood, she was stricken with 
a malady which has remained with her all through the 
years. She has her home with her sister, Margaret J. and 
brother D. J. Knox, on the old homestead where they were 
born and raised. 

The next in the family is William Zeans Wylie, who 
was born Oct. 17th, 1848. He was married on June i6th, 



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1 88 1, to Sarah Elizabeth Dunlap. Their family consists of 
two daughters, Mary Eleanor, who was born April 6th, 
1892, and Alice Mandana, who was born May 24th, 1884. 
Mrs. Wylie was born August 25th, 185 i. William Z. Wvlie 
is a farmer by occupation. He owns a beautiful home three 
miles west of Zanesville, Ohio, and one mile from South 
Zanesville. He is an elder in the United Presbyterian 
church of Zanesville. He has everything necessary to make 
life enjoyable. A fine home, well located, an amiable, indus- 
trious wife and pleasant, obedient, well educated daughters. 

Margaret Jane, second daughter of William and Mar- 
garet Wylie, was born August 15th, 1850. She has never 
married. She has been the constant companion and care- 
taker of her afflicted sister. 

David John Knox Wylie, was born Feby. i8th, 1855. 
He has always resided on the old homestead and looked 
after the welfare of his two sisters. He was married in 
December, 1901. 

Joseph Henry Rutherford Wylie, was born Sept. 17th, 
1858. He married Esther McCullough, April iith, 1889. 
She died August 7th, 1896. She left two sons, James F. 
and William W. 

Joseph H. R. Wylie, was married to his second wife 
who was Margaret A. Blackwood, July 27th, 1889. He 
lives near New Concord, Ohio. 

All the children of William Wyle, have profited by the 
training received under the parental roof, are worthy and 
useful members of either the Reformed Presbyterian or 
United Presbyterian church. 

John Wylie, second son of William and Rebecca Wylie 
was born in Perry county, Ohio, Feb. 22d, 1808. He was 
married to Maria Wisher in the year 1833. She was born 
in Mifflin county. Pa., the year 18 10. John Wylie died in 

Washington county, Illinois, 1886. His wife Maria 

died at her son Joseph's in North Dakota, in the year 1897. 



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To this worthy couple were born the following named chil- 
dren: Rebecca Jane, James M,, Austin, Sarah, David, John 
W., Richard C, Joseph, Elizabeth, Samuel R. and Nancy, 
in the order named. 

I knew perhaps less of uncle John Wylie, than of any 
uncle I had, although I was several times at his house and 
remember of his visiting my father's family on several occa. 
sions, I know however, that he was a man of much moral 
worth. He was possessed of much of what is usually term- 
ed dry fun. He was a quiet unostentatious, undemonstrative 
man and in his makeup was quite a vein of drollery. He 
was a hatter by trade which occupation he followed during 
his younger days. While comparatively a young man he 
took up farming for a livelihood which occupation he fol- 
lowed all the rest of his life. 

A few years after his marriage he moved to his fathers 
farm about two miles north of Fultonham, in Muskingum 
county, Ohio. About the year 1846, he bought a farm near 
Dresden, Ohio, which he improved and oti which he continu- 
ed to reside until the year 1864, when he sold his farm and 
moved to Washington county, Illinois, where he purchased 
another farm on which he resided until death which occur- 
red 1886. 

John Wylie was a man of high character and possess- 
ed of many excellent traits. He was a conscientious, reli- 
gious gentleman. From his early manhood to the day of 
his death he was a consistent member of the Reformed 
Presbyterian church and for many years a ruling elder, and 
on several occasions he represented in the higher courts of 
the church the congregation of which he was a member. 
He believed fully that the doctrines of his church were 
strictly in accord with the teaching of the Holy Scripture. 
Consequently he held firmly to all their distinctive principles. 

He was, as were his father and brothers, a strong oppo- 
nent of the institution of American slavery. He was a 



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quiet, obliging neighbor, a good, upright, loyal citizen and 
an excellent father, who trained well his household and in- 
stilled into the minds of his children correct principles and 
taught them well their duty to God and their fellow-men. 
While he was less aggressive than his older brother William 
of whom we have spoken, yet he was a man of much influ- 
.ence in any community in which he lived and his influence 
was always on the side of right. 

He died as he lived, a firm believer in the "gospel of 
Christ" as "the power of God unto salvation to everyone 
that believeth." 

MARIA WYLIE. 

Maria, wife of John Wylie, was a quiet, unostentatious 
woman. A good christian woman, a good mother, and one 
who had the good of her children at heart. She was of so 
mild a disposition, and of such an unobtrusive nature that 
it is doubtful if she ever had an enemy. She was born in 
Pennsylvania June 29, 18 10, and died at her son Joseph's in 
Drayton, North Dakota, March 12, 1895. 

Rebecca Jane, eldest child of John and Maria Wylie, 
was born April 16, 1834, and died in 1861. She was a girl 
of many rare and beautiful traits of character. She was a 
good scholar and much above the average in mtelligence. 
She was possessed of good natural ability which she had 
taken pains to improve. 

She was always a lively, fun-loving girl, but her fun 
was always of the innocent, harmless kind. Anything like 
wounding the feelings of another was entirely foreign to 
her nature. To those who knew her best it seemed that 
she adopted and practiced the Golden Rule in all her deal- 
ings with others. Having from her earliest infancy been 
religiously trained and well indoctrinated m the principles 
of Christianity, she just grew into a lovely christian charac- 
ter. To her, death was merely the transition from the 
church militant to the church triumphant. 



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James M. second child and oldest son of John and Maria 
Wylie was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, Jany 12, 1836. 
He married Miss Mary McConnell, who died in 1898. To 
them was born one child, a son, George, who while in busi- 
ness with his uncle Joseph in Drayton, North Dakota, died 
suddenly on the evening of Jan'y 27, 1901, while in compa- 
ny with his wife attending a lecture m the church. He left 
a son five years old. 

James M. Wylie has always been a quiet, peaceable, 
industrious man. When quite a young man he learned the 
carpenter trade, which has been his principal occupation 
thus far through life, except a few years spent in mercantile 
business. He is now, and has been for some years, a con- 
tractor and builder. 

He moved from Muskingum county, Ohio, to Coulters- 
ville, Ills., in 1867, and has made his home there ever since. 

The next in the family of John and Maria Wylie, was 
their son Austin, who was born Dec. 15, 1837, and died 1852. 

Their third child, Sarah Eleanor, was born April 9, 
1 840. She is married to John Torrence, and lives at Beaver 
Falls, Pennsylvania. 

David W. is the next in the family of John and Maria 
Wylie. He was born July 6, 1842. He married Amanda 
McClurkin, near Oakdale, 111. He was a soldier in the 
union army during the civil war. He new lives in the state 
of Washinton. 

The next in the family, John Wallace, was born July 
9, 1844. He also served in the union army in the war be- 
tween the states. His wife was Miss Maggie Ewing. They 
were married in Colo., and afterward returned to Washing- 
ton county. III., where they had both formerly resided. 

For the last 15 or 16 years their home has been in 
Kansas City, Mo., where Mr. Wylie has carried on the busi- 
ness of contractor and builder. There are in the family 



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three children, one son named Blanchard, and two daugh- 
ters, the eldest named Mabel and the younger, Lulu. 

R. C. WYLIE. 

Rev. Richard Cameron Wylie, fifth son and seventh 
child of John and Maria Wylie, was born near Dresden, in 
Muskingum county, O., Aug. 27, 1846. He was married to 
Nancy J. Buchanan June 6, 1876. He is a graduate ot 
Muskingum CJollege. He was licensed to preach 
April 6, 1874. He was, on the 15 th day of June, 1875, or- 
dained and installed pastor of the congregation of the Re- 
formed Presbyterian church at Hopkinton, Iowa. He was 
pastor of this church for seven years and three months. He 
resigned his pastorate there to take up the work of national 
reform. For the next two years he was engaged in this 
work. He has been for some years past, pastor of the Re- 
formed Presbyterian congregation of Wilkinsburg, Pennsyl- 
vania. He is considered one of the strong men of that de- 
nomination in which there are many men of ability. 

His wife, Nancy J., was born Aug. 20, 1848. She has 
already been mentioned in the account of her father's fam- 
ily, her mother being a daughter of David and Margaret 
Brown. To R. C. and W. J. Wylie were born the follow- 
ing named children: Anna Maud, born Aug. 7, 1881; Bessie 
Lilian Marie, born March 15, 1884; Vella Valeria, born 
June 5, 1887, and Cameron Sloan, born March 27, 1889. 
The last named, and only son, died Feby 18, 1894. 

The next in the family of John and Maria Wylie, Jo- 
seph McClung, was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, Sept. 
4, 1848. On March 23, 1871, he was married to Elizabeth 
Morrison at Elkhorn, Ills. Of this union were born the 
following children: a son born May 4, 1876, and died the 
same day. Edward Mellville, born July 23, 1877. He grad- 
uated from the University of Denver, in the cla.ss of 1898. 
He then took a course in the theological department of 



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Boston University, and is now pastor of a Congregational 
church in Beverly, Mass. 

The third child. Lulu Ethel, was born Aug, 24, 1880, 
and is taking a course in the Hamline University of St. 
Paul, Minn. 

Samuel Rutherford was the 9th child and 7th son of 
John and Maria Wylie. He was born near Dresden, Ohio, 
on the 8th of August, 1850, and died at his father's home 
near Oakdale, Ills. 

Maria Elizabeth, loth in the family of John and Maria 
Wylie, was born Jany 7, 1853. She married Cargill Elliott 
and died in Coulterville, Ills,, about the year 1890. 

Nancy Isabella, youngest of the children of John and 
Maria Wylie, was born May 29, 1855. She is married to 
Martin Woodside and lives near Clay Center, Kan. 

ISABELLA WYLIE. 

Isabella, third child and oldest daughter of William 
and Rebecca Wylie, was born March 3, 1806, and was mar- 
ried to Richard McGee, April 21, 1842. Of this union there 
were born four children: William Wylie, James Wilson, 
Eleanor and Rebecca Jane. 

Isabella Wylie McGee was a good christian woman, a 
kind, loving, industrious mother. As were all her brothers 
and sisters, she was born and baptized in the church of her 
parents. She was a child of the church, and when she ar- 
rived at the years of discretion, she made a public profes- 
sion of her faith and united with the church in which she 
had been reared and trained, and she lived and died in full 
communion of the same. 

On Sabbath morning, June 3, 1877, when she was 71 
years and 3 months old, she started to church with other 
members of the family, she sitting on the back seat of an 
open carriage and in crossing a small gully the seat tipped 
and she was thrown out, and alighting on her head and 
shoulders, her neck was broken. And thus without a mo- 



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merit's warning she was called from earth to heaven, there 
to meet her Savior and loved ones who preceded her. 
Nearly her whole life was lived in Muskingum county^ 
Ohio. From eaily childhood to the time of her marriage 
she lived near Uniontown, now called Fultonham. After 
marriage she went to live with her husband on his farm 
about three miles south of Warwick, in the eastern part of 
Muskingum county,. Ohio Here she reared her family, 
here she did the most of her life's work, and here too, she 
died. Her children keep green her memory and cherish 
her virtues. 

Richard McGee was born April 23, 1801, and died Nov, 
27, 1862. From a religious standpoint, he was a real Cam- 
eronian. He was of Scotch parentage and all his life a 
member of the Reformed Presbyterian church and his chil- 
dren were all trained in the same faith. It may well be 
said of them that they were reared in the nurture and ad- 
monition of the Lord. As a consequence of their training 
and being thoroughly indoctrinated in the principles of the 
church, they grew up to useful respectable christian man- 
hood and womanhood. Richard McGee was first married 
to Eleanor Calhoun April 4, 1822. She died and left an 
infant son, who bore his father's name. Young Richard 
McGee married Miss McKnight in Muskingum county, 
Ohio. A few years afterward he removed to Dade county, 
Mo. He died in about 1899. 

William Wylie McGee, oldest son of Richard and Isa- 
bella, was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, on March 29, 
1843. On the 1 2th of Oct, 1870, he was married to Mar- 
garet Flemming. They have no children. In Dec. 1871 
they left Ohio and settled in or near Manhattan, Kansas. 
From there, on Sept. 18, 1878, they moved to Dade county, 
Mo. Leaving Missouri in Oct., 1878, they located at 
Olathe, Kansas, where they continue to reside. 

James Wilson, second son of Richard and Isabella Mc- 



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Gee, was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, May 7, 1844, 
was married to Ella Hutcheson on Dec. 22, 1882. Here- 
moved to Kansas, landing in Johnson county, Kansas 
Feby 28, 1878, where he has resided ever since. 

To this couple there have been born five children, as 
follows: 

Isabella Wylie McGee, born November 18, 1883. 

Josephine McGee, born April 30, 1885, died June 5, 
1887. 

Elsie Elizabeth McGee, born Sept. 23, 1887. 

James Harvey McGee, born Oct. i, 1892. 

Howard Hutcheson McGee, born Sept, 3, 1899, 

Eleanor, eldest daughter and third child of Richard 
and Isabella McGee, born in Muskingum county, Ohio, 
March 8, 1846 and was married to William Glen McDonald 
May I, 1883. He was born in Concord,Muskingum county, 
Ohio. After marriage they located in Bethany, Harrison 
county. Mo. From there, in the year 1892, they went to To- 
peka, Kan., where Mr. McDonald is employed in the station- 
ery department of the Santa Fe railroad offices. They have 
one child, Edna Eleanor. She was born Oct. 10, 1884, in 
the tovn of Bethany, Harrison county, Missouri. 

Rebecca Jane, youngest child of Richard and Isabella 
McGee was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, Sept. 22, 
1847. She was married to John Calvin Wallace May 25, 
1876. Mr. Wallace was born June 29, 1845. They live in 
or near Norwich, Muskingum county, Ohio. 

They have the following children: 

Flora B., born Feby 25, 1877. 

Albert T., born Dec. 8, 1878. 

Herbert, born Sept. 14, 1880. 

Wylie M., born Oct. 14, 1882. 

David C, born Oct. 9, 1884. 

Jennie L., born Jany 12, 1887. 

Carrie J., born Nov. i, 1892. 



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JOSEPH WYLIE. 

Joseph Wylie, third son of William and Rebecca Wy- 
lie, was born in Perry county, Ohio, March 25, 18 10. He 
was married to Nancy Brown March 20, 1836. He died May 
29, 185 1. In the sketch of Nancy Brown Wylie, in connec- 
tion with the Brown family, we mentioned what we design- 
ed saying of Joseph Wylie and children and consider it 
unnecessary to repeat it here, but will add that while Joseph 
Wylie was a very conscientious christian and observed 
punctually and regularly the forms of religion in his family 
and trained his children carefully, yet he was a very mirth- 
ful man, but his mirth was always of the innocent kind. 
Few persons enjoyed good company and fellowship more 
than did he. He was in declining health for some months 
before he died. When death came it found him fully pre- 
pared for the change. He died lamented by all who knew 
him. 

Rebecca, second daughter of William and Rebecca 
Wylie, was born March 27, 18 12; was married to William 
Brown Jany 20, 1835. For further particulars see sketch of 
William Brown and family. 

SARAH WYLIE. 

Sarah, third daughter of William and Rececca Wylie, 
was born in Perry county, Ohio, May 2, 18 14. She was 
married to James George, June 17. 1841, and died Feby 26, 
1898. She was the mother of the following named children: 

Eleanor, born Oct, 25, 1842. 

William W., born April 28, 1844, and died Oct. 10, 1884. 

John Calvin and James Renwick were born Aug. 25, 
1846, James R. died Sept. 26, 1855. 

Jane Eliza was born Nov. 11, 1849, and died Nov. 3 
1899. 

Rebecca was born Nov. 25, 185 i, and died June 3, 1884. 
Joseph W., was born Oct. 5, 1853. 



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John Calvin and Joseph WyHe are the only members 
of this family now living. 

The husband and father, James George, was born in 
the year 1804, in county Derry, Ireland, died Feby 20, 1856. 
He came to America m 181 1. He was a stone mason by 
trade. The large two-story house in which he raised his 
family and in which he died was erected by his own hands, 
and was occupied by his widow so long as she lived and is 
now owned and occupied by his son Joseph For a number 
of years, during the latter part of his life, he was engaged 
m farming and was quite successful. 

While James George was a jolly, fun-loving son of 
Erin he was also a consisten christian and a member of the 
Reformed Presbyterian church. 

Sarah Wylie George was a very hospitable, cheery wo. 
man. She was left a widow with five children, the eldest 
twelve and the youngest less than five years old. She man- 
anged well and was a good mother to her children. Being 
left a widow, and feeling the responsibility of the care of a 
family of small children, she doubled her dilligence in the 
training of her family in which she so well succeeded. 

JANE ELIZA WYLIE. 

Jane Eliza Wylie was born in Muskingum county, 
Ohio, Jany 15, 1817. She married Rev. John Wallace. I 
believe she lived all her married life in Putnam, Ohio; at 
least she died there, and I never knew or heard of her living 
at any other place. I think she died in June, 1848, but am 
not certain as to the date and have no means of ascertain- 
ing. She left but one child, a son named William. I have 
had no personal knowledge of him since he was ten or 
twelve years old. 

MARTHA A. WYLIE. 

Martha A., the youngest of William and Rebeqca Wy- 
lie's family, was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, March 
28, 1 8 19, and was married to Jas. McCammon, December, 



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1 83 5- She died June 17, 1864, aged 45 years, 2 months 
and 19 days. 

JAMES MCCAMMON. 

James McCammon was born in Middletown, Pennsylva- 
nia, June 10, 181 1. His father, Dr. McCammon,was a native 
of county Down, Ireland. The McCammon's were originally 
from Scotland and numbers of them settled in the north of 
Ireland, where the name is yet quite common. Dr. Mc- 
Cammon spent ten years in Edinburg, Scotland, while ob- 
taining his education, after which he was married to Jane 
McClelland and emigrated to America, settling in Middle- 
town, Pa. He was a very successful physician but only 
lived ten years to practice his profession. James McCam- 
mon was four years old when his father, Dr. McCammon^ 
died. His mother, with her three children, Mary, James 
and George, returned to Ireland. At the age of 14 James 
came back to America. After serving some years as clerk 
in a mercantile establishment in Philadelphia, he engaged 
in the mercantile business for himself in his native town of 
Middletown, Pa. A few years afterward he came to Ohio, 
purchased a fine farm in Muskingum county. Two years 
afterward he returned to Ireland to finish his education,, 
leaving the farm in the care of his mother and a trusty 
Irishman, his mother having also returned to America. I 
have no positive information as to how long he remained in 
Ireland, but soon after he returned to America the second 
time, he and Martha A. Wylie were married. After mar- 
riage he engaged for some time in mercantile business in 
Utica, Ohio. In a few years, however he returned to his 
farm in Muskingum county, Ohio, where he spent the re. 
mainder of his days. 

His energy coupled with his sound judgment made him 
successful in whatever business he engaged. He was a 
successful and enthusiastic breeder and raiser of fine cattle. 

His death which occurred June 9th, 1856, was acciden 



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tal and very sad. He, with his nephew James M. Wylie 
went into the woods in the morning full of life, hope and ex- 
pectation, but in less than one short hour was brought 
home a corpse. In loading a large sawlog on the wagon 
some part of the appliance for loading gave way and the 
log, in rolling back, caught him and crushed the life out of 
him. 

James McCammon was a man of strict integrity and 
high moral character. He was an active, loyal, conscien- 
tious member of the Reformed Presbyterian church. He 
was possessed of many of the noble characteristics of the 
Scotch Irish people. Staunch in his friendship, out spoken 
in defense of the right, ready to condemn that which he 
believed to be wrong and to stand firm for the truth as he 
understood it. He was a man of great force of character. 
He was intelligent, religious and energetic. He was such a 
man as benefits any community in which he lives. 

Martha Wylie McCammon was a very jolly, sprightly 
light hearted woman. She had many of the traits of the 
Wylie family, viz: honesty, earnestness, hospitality and 
conscientious discharge of her duty toward God and man. 
I think it can be said without the fear of incurring the 
charge of boasting that the Wylie family was endowed with 
a more than ordinary amount of natural intellect and most 
of them made use of their opportunities to improve their 
God given powers. It can further be said of them that 
they were religious, God-fearing people, and so far as known 
there was not a disreputable character among them, even 
down to the third and fourth generation. But on the other 
hand there have been, and are now, those among them 
known for their piety and their interest in christian work. 
To James and Martha McCammon there were born eight 
children, one dying in infancy. Of the others, Jane the 
eldest, was born March 14th, 1838. She was married to 
Amos M. Morgan in 1857, and died Feb. 4th, 1870. To 



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them were born four daughters, all living in Missouri and 
Iowa. James B., the second child and only son of James 
and Martha McCammon, was born Dec. 5th, 1840, and mar- 
ried in 1872, lives in Richwood, Delaware county, Ohio. 
They have no children. 

The third child, Mary R., was born Aug. 29th, 1843? 
and was married to Johnston Beattie, Oct. 31st, 1867. To 
this union were born seven children, five of whom are living. 
Their oldest child Renwick, was born Dec. 17th, 1870. He 
graduated from the Ohio State University in June 1894, and 
on Dec. 4, 1894, was married to EmmaM. Outcalt, of Colum- 
bus, Ohio. He holds a position in the agricultural depart- 
ment at Washington, D. C. 

Lena L. Beattie was born June 30th, 1876. Has been 
for three years a student in the Ohio University and expects 
to graduate there. 

C. Knox was born Aug. 9th, 1874. He has been an 
invalid all his life and makes his home with his parents. 

Rozilla Maye, was born Nov. 21st, 1878. She spent 
two years in college and expects to complete the course, 
but at present is doing mission work in Selma Alabama. 

. James Herbert, youngest child of Mary R. and John- 
stone Beattie was born June 4th, 1882. Is now a first year 
student in Ohio State University. 

The next in the family of James and Martha McCam- 
mon is their daughter Martha A. who was born Dec. 14th, 
1845. She was married to T. A. McGlade, Aug. 7th, 1868, 
and died May 29th, 1897. Six children were born to them 
five of whom are living with their father in Zanesville, Ohio. 

Eliza McCammon was born April 19th, 1847, and was 
married to A. K. Wylie in 1872. To them was born four 
daughters. Mrs. Wylie died in 1872. Mr. Wylie and his 
four daughters reside in Toledo, Ohio. 

Nancy McCammon, was born July 5th, 1848, and was 
married to R. B. Wood in 1873. They have four sons liv. 



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ing. One son and their only daughter died in infancy 
The oldest, Ralph M. was married Oct. 19th, 1901. The 
parents and four sons all live in Bellefountain, Ohio. 

Sarah R., youngest of the family of James and Martha 
McCammon was born in Dec, 1 8 5 1 , and was married to 
Robert Wylie in 1874. She died Oct. 15th, 1877, leaving 
no children. 

This ends what I intend saying of the McCammon 
family and also concludes the genealogy the Wylie's so far 
as I have been able to ascertain it. 



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